Comments on: ARM preparing Cortex vs Atom comparison (and more) for MWC

By: gary

gary — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:50:22 +0000

The Snapdragon and the A4 for the iPad are similar to the combinations described in this article.

You have an ARM9 core combined with GPU in System on a chip silicon

1GHz Apple A4 Processor (ARM9 Compliant, ARM Mali GPU, SOC Architecture)

For Snapdragon they are combined together in a design by Qualcomm

In the case of A4 you have the ARM designs have been contracted by Apple owned PA Semi for manufacturing by Samsung under contract.

By: payasyougo mobile phones

payasyougo mobile phones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:21:16 +0000

While ARM Holding is going up and Intel Corporation is moving down, I therefore have no doubt who will end up being a clear winner in the race to become no.1 micro chip producer in the years to come.

ARM with it ARM7 and ARM9 processor can easily take on Intel Atom for many reasons, firstly ARM7 and ARM9 consume less power and have longer standby times the Intel Atom processor. Secondly the ARM7 and ARM9 is much smaller in size then the Intel Atom, this will reduce cost for hardware vendors.

ARM Holding to date powers more then 95% of the smart phones, such as Nokia, iPhone, Blackberry and host of other communication devices such as TV Music player and set-top boxes.

By: Unni

Unni — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:56:02 +0000

Is there any performance chart or details between ARM and ATOM processors relating multimedia application?

By: ProDigit

ProDigit — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:23:50 +0000

The ARM processor does a great job in the e-ink devices (ebook reader devices like Sony reader PRS-505 and Amazon Kindle).
I bet for 3D applications and software OS, a Via chip, or the Atom processor will outperform.
In cases where battery life and price matters most, a mininotebook with reflective (non-backlit) 4-8-bit color screen, and SSD MLC storage, could be best powered by an ARM processor.

By: wat

wat — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:16:23 +0000

I wish someone would make an ARM/ATOM hybrid MID. Both processors in one device on the same board somehow would allow you to boot up whichever was needed for the task. Maybe some day they will figure how to do it.

By: theluketaylor

theluketaylor — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:48:40 +0000

there are very few open source applications that can’t be ported if they haven’t already been. It’s actually easier to list what doesn’t work rather then what does.

For a good idea of what runs the angstrom linux distro is specifically for embedded arm devices. The list of packages is here:
http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/
That certainly isn’t an exhaustive list of what can run on arm but is a list of things that already run well. When the armv7 port of Ubuntu is done (it is scheduled for release alongside the rest of the 9.04 archs) pretty much all open source software in Ubuntu will run on ARM Cortex A8 chips

By: Chippy

Chippy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:54:48 +0000

True……today.

By: JeCh

JeCh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:29:00 +0000

What I would love to see is a MID, that would have enough capacity to store a lot of music and video. The lately announced SDXC card with capacity up to 2 TB might be the solution. It should be able to run some nice multimedia applications, for example Songbird, SMPlayer, VLC, Amarok and mainly Elisa (http://elisa.fluendo.com/), which has a perfect interface for touch screen devices.

Of course it should also have a document viewer, Internet browser, file manager, email client etc.

Do you have any idea which Linux programs can be compiled for ARM processors? It should be possible to see from Ubuntu or Debian ARM repositories. But I can’t find them.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:39:21 +0000

heh, not everyone is as web hungry as you are, chippy

By: JP

JP — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:07:33 +0000

Wow! That’ll be a lot of stuff to watch out!

By: Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Steve 'Chippy' Paine — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:12:32 +0000

ARM preparing Cortex vs Atom comparison (and more) for MWC http://tinyurl.com/buj39c