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For two reasons. A lower ghz means it uses less power. The second reason is that there is room for improvement, since this is a development board. It is said
by illumen 17y ago
For two reasons. A lower ghz means it uses less power. The second reason is that there is room for improvement, since this is a development board. It is said another 500mhz or so from released versions, and it's unlikely the atom will double its ghz any time soon.
No gfx accelerator on the arm board either. So it should get faster than this yet again.
So this shows fairly good promise to it being a good architecture.
- sketerpot 17y agoThe figures I always hear say that the Cortex-A9 will scale up to 2 GHz if you go for the least power-efficient settings, and that somewhere around 1 GHz would probably be more typical of real use. It looks like the obvious fit for the Apple Tablet, by the way. It's fast enough to compete head-on with Intel chips while taking it easy on the batteries. Apple bought PA Semi, and has made custom ARM-based chips before. This would be a competitive advantage that other companies would have trouble duplicating, and for that reason alone I think Apple would go for it.