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> specs are on-par with a 2-year old smartphone flagship Cortex-A53 is a low cost, energy efficient, slow, in-order implementation. I don't think it was ever u
by lgeek 10y ago
> specs are on-par with a 2-year old smartphone flagship
Cortex-A53 is a low cost, energy efficient, slow, in-order implementation. I don't think it was ever used as the main core in a flagship smartphone. Something like a 2012 ODROID-X2 SBC with its Cortex-A9 cores should have no trouble outperforming it, but it doesn't support AArch64.
> Given Allwinner's history of GPL skirmishes and backdooring
On the other hand, the linux-sunxi community does a pretty good job of bringing mainline support for Allwinner SocS and they're working on the A64. That's probably the longer term plan for the creators of this laptop.
- Nanite 10y agoThe Cortex-A53 is also used in the Orange Pi 2, a Raspberry Pi 3 alternative for $20. On paper this is some nice bang for the buck hardware, just the implementation is sub par.