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Thanks for the thorough detailed reply, I really appreciate it. I failed to grasp one thing you mentioned which is: >"is actually an issue and that's part of w

Thanks for the thorough detailed reply, I really appreciate it. I failed to grasp one thing you mentioned which is: >"is actually an issue and that's part of why you don't see BIG.little approaches in x86 land and why atom did so poorly in the phone market." Is BIG an acronym here? I had trouble understanding that sentence. Cheers.

Symmetry 8y ago
I was reproducing an ARM marketing term incorrectly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE Basically, the idea is that you have a number of small, low power cores together with a few larger, faster, but less efficient cores. Intel hasn't made anything doing that. Intel also tried to get x86 chips into phones but it didn't work out for them.
- bogomipz 8y ago
  Thanks, this is actually a good read and clever bit of marketing. Cheers.