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This is entirely feasible due to the fact that at say a dual core 2ghz processor you get to the point of "good enough" processing power for most consumers. ARM
by programminggeek 15y ago
This is entirely feasible due to the fact that at say a dual core 2ghz processor you get to the point of "good enough" processing power for most consumers. ARM is already getting very close to that. With nVidia's quad core chips coming and desktop chips coming, it's easy to see that ARM is going to hit that dual core 2ghz point.
Here is the other thing, ARM chips are cheaper, made by more manufacturers, and support multiple interesting OS's. Chrome OS, Android, iOS, Windows, WebOS, Blackberry, and so on.
So cheaper chips that are "good enough" will likely spell the end of the Wintel monopoly.
Then again, by 2015 Intel could jump back in the ARM race along with the launch of Windows 8. You just never know.
- evangineer 15y agoThe noises coming out of Intel about ARM recently are quite ambiguous. I'd be really surprised if they weren't seriously considering using their ARM license though. There is a massive amount at stake for Intel here.
- bane 15y agoIt's also completely possible to offload intensive processing applications to secondary units, GPUs, encoder/decoders etc. On larger platforms (laptops, desktops) there's even more space and power for these things. Reminds me of computing back in the old days a la the Amiga! Tons of specialized chips to overcome the limitations of relatively weak CPUs.
- rbanffy 15y agoThe 68000 in the Amiga (or Mac, or Atari ST line) was not weak compared to the 286s of the day. The limiting factor in early Amiga history was total memory available and the fact chip RAM had to be shared between multiple chips. The first Unix machine I used had a 68000 and 20 or so terminals.