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Except that the Atoms at same (and even a bit higher) clock don't even offer marginally better performance. And another thing that I came to think of that weig
by hackermom 16y ago
Except that the Atoms at same (and even a bit higher) clock don't even offer marginally better performance.
And another thing that I came to think of that weighs heavily in ARM's favor is the multitude of composite, multifunctional chips, SoCs etc. currently available in the ARM flavor. Is there ANYTHING like this for Atom, or any x86 at all?
- maximilianburke 16y agoYes, AMD's Fusion line (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion) aims to provide SoC functionality.
- nl 16y agoExcept that the Atoms at same (and even a bit higher) clock don't even offer marginally better performance. Depends if we are talking Arm Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9. Atom is much more powerful at same clock speed that Cortex-A8. Cortex-A9 is getting closer competitive, but doesn't have much of a power advantage over it. (Lies, damn lies and benchmarks, but A8 gets ~2000 MIPS, A9 ~2500 MIPS and singlecore 1st gen Atom gets ~3300 MIPS) Also, multicore-Atom has been in the market for a while. Multicore ARM is just coming online now. It's worth noting that Intel can speed up Atom whenever they want. There are plenty of easy wins in there (eg, better execution core, faster memory controller) that they can put in if they need to keep their lead.
- ssp 16y ago(Lies, damn lies and benchmarks, but A8 gets ~2000 MIPS, A9 ~2500 MIPS and singlecore 1st gen Atom gets ~3300 MIPS) Measured how, and at what frequencies? Also ARMs are really starved for bandwidth. Has that improved with the Cortex A9?