| Produced | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Qualcomm |
| Common manufacturer(s) | |
| Max. CPU clock rate | 800 MHz to 1.7 GHz |
| Instruction set | ARM, Thumb-2 |
| Cores | 1 or 2 |
| L1 cache | 32 KiB/32 KiB |
| L2 cache | 256 KiB or 512 KiB |
| Successor | Krait |
Scorpion is a central processing unit (CPU) core designed by Qualcomm for use in their Snapdragon mobile systems on chips (SoCs). It is designed in-house, but has many architectural similarities with the ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 CPU cores.