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It was a cool idea. That was its point, lower power for acceptable performance. It wasn't trying to be the fastest; their value proposition was being able to pl
by CalChris 9y ago
It was a cool idea. That was its point, lower power for acceptable performance. It wasn't trying to be the fastest; their value proposition was being able to play a DVD on a SF NY flight on battery. But Intel pivoted and did that too.
- paulmd 9y agoThe problem was that back then the platform (chipset, etc) consumed a significant amount of power as well, so even dropping the processor to Atom level TDP couldn't really achieve that much given the rest of the system.
- digi_owl 9y agoLeading to some "interesting" outcomes. Anyone remember Moblin? Apparently Intel started work on that Linux distro because Microsoft balked regarding an x86 platform without PCI device lookup. And Intel removed the PCI stuff in an effort to cut power drain. As an aside, running windows on ARM to this day require special SoCs.
- rjsw 9y agoThe Transmeta Crusoe also included most of the features of the "chipset", it had PCI and memory controller built in at a time when other manufacturers' CPUs didn't. You still needed to add a display controller but that was true of all the competing CPUs too.