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This might be completely irrational, but it really annoys me when the press use 'big.little' for all heterogeneous CPUs. big.LITTLE is an ARM trademark for ARM's implementation of heterogenous designs. Intel have clearly decided heterogeneous is a marketing no-go and have gone with 'hybrid' architecture, which is fair enough. But these are absolutely not big.LITTLE CPUs.

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"big.little" is like "kleenex" or "ziploc". Yes, technically they refer to a specific implementation of a thing, heterogenous CPU core size, tissues, plastic storage bags, but in reality, they were so perfectly branded that they just replaced the item name. It's not a big deal.

or "Google" for web search.

It's exactly the same thing when people say an AMD Ryzen CPU has "Hyperthreading." This is Intel's trademark for Simultaneous multithreading (or SMT).

We all know what someone means when they say this. There's no use being so pedantic.

And I'm sure that people are going to call the Google Tensor "big.little" when it is really "big.medium.little" (it has 3 different types of ARM cores)!

No need to look that far. Mainstream mobile processors in everyone's pocket have already been using 3 types of cores for the last few years (cortex A55, A7* and X1).

Good call - I haven't paid enough attention to the Android ecosystem :)

Unless we get something better sounding than "heterogeneous CPU topology", I'm going to go with big.LITTLE. I know it's incorrect to apply it outside of ARM processors, but it's also not 13 syllables and it's more likely that someone will know what I'm talking about.

Do you get just as annoyed about discussions where x86-64, AMD64, Intel 64, and x64 are used interchangeably?

They should be using AMP

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