New CPU
Attila Csipa
plists at prometheus.org.yu
Tue May 29 21:35:50 CEST 2007
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 19:52:20 Crane, Matthew wrote:
> For a viable commercial product I would expect the CPU to be first of all
> the cheapest one that meets the minimal horsepower requirements, and
> obviously other considerations, such as power consumption.
From the page, the newly suggested SoC is very new, in fact newer than the
original release date for the Neo1973. I don't think anyone at FIC would
consider swapping out such a crucial element of the system at this stage of
development, even if it would be cheaper and faster and more energy efficient
at the same time.
> Would you prefer to run Microsoft office for 30s or have your battery last
> for a week?
I would need to check the specs for details, but the newer core runs is
fabricated in 0.13u instead of 0.18u and needs 1.3V+ instead of 1.8V+, those
are actually signs that this core does not necessarily consume more power
even though it has more MHz (also take into account improved power saving
schemes).
Also #2, MHz do not indicate speed. They indicate clock rate. 266MHz could be
not enough and plenty at the same time depending on what you do with it and
what the underlying architecture is.
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