Samsung SoCs naming rules

[Jassi Brar]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Eric Miao <eric.y.miao at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Kyungmin Park <kmpark at infradead.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Now Samsung SoCs doesn't have any special rules include chip name.
>>
>> Historically s5pc100 is successor form s3c6410 and this chip from
>> s3c2410 series.
>> on the other hand, s5pc110 (cortex a8) and s5pc64xx (armv6) is
>> different from previous chips.
>
> Don't be shy, Samsung is not the only vendor messes the naming of their
> SoCs. Marvell might have done a better job on this :-)
Actually the names are selected based upon a set of criteria such as target
market, technology etc. The chart used to be available online, don't remember
the location now.