Comments on: M&M&Ms What IDF09 meant for Mobility.

By: Tony aka garage automation guru

Tony aka garage automation guru — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:29:26 +0000

Good post, I look forward to the reduced power consumption that would be great if the moorestown platform was using half the power, but I don’t see that happening unless you only use the device infrequently and it’s on standby most of the time because of your individual usage behaviors.

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:54:39 +0000

Is that really true, though? We’ll probably see quad-core Cortex A9 chips by the end of next year. The Cortex A family already have roughly equivalent instructions-per-second-per-clock to the Atom family.

Being limited to the ARM/Linux software library instead of the X86/Windows one is the real issue, I think.

By: moore

moore — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:14:13 +0000

As much I like ARM, they don’t run Windows.

They have a future in MIDs platform only if Linux distributions like Moblin becomes popular.

If this do not happen, they could consume 0.0001 watt , but still they would not sell units.

By: ssagg

ssagg — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:37:42 +0000

The matter is where you are going not where you come from. ARM processors are going to take longer to get to Intel power levels than intel to get ARM comsumption levels.

By: Jiba

Jiba — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:24:07 +0000

My old Zaurus C1000 consume less than 1 watt, including processors but also screen, flash memory, etc.
So for 1-watt PC, I think that ARM processors are definitively more interesting than Intel ones !

By: Mark Hirsch

Mark Hirsch — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:11:09 +0000

M&M&Ms What IDF09 meant for Mobility. http://bit.ly/2vW2G

By: Steve 'Chippy' Paine

Steve 'Chippy' Paine — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:13:13 +0000

M&M&M's. What #IDF09 meant for mobility. (IDF summary of mobility related information) http://cli.gs/8AquN