Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise
 

Is there any competitors against snapdragon - processor wise

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If you look here Intel seems to be working on something: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...-atom-lincroft

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Yes. The Motorola Droid X (and quite possibly the Droid 2) has a 1GHz TI OMAP 3630, which is faster in many benchmarks than the 1GHz Snapdragon.

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Is ther any comparason with overclocking the n900 one to 1,15Ghz? It should stand pretty well against the snapdragon.. maybe a little bit more resource hungry though.

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OMAP 3630 is only faster in somethings I believe. It's the yet unfinished OMAP 4 series that will be much faster.

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There is a good table of ARM cores and where they have been applied in wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture .

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Freescale has i.MX515 and i.MX535
Apple has the A4
Nvidia has the Tegra 250
And, of course, the TI OMAP line.

All of these are excellent Snapdragon competitors. Snapdragon has the press drooling because they can print headlines that say "Sexy 1Ghz Phone is Sexy!" But the reality is that software is much more important than the hardware.

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And don't forget the MHz myth

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Aye, Qualcomm inflated their MHz numbers by reducing cache sizes, CPU features and keeping stuff like the GPU off-die. Our 600MHz OMAP3 is competitive with the 1GHz Snapdragon.

Don't be fooled by marketing-skewed specs.

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Well there is also the Samsung Hummingbird (Almost the same like apple's A4)
It's like the TI OMAP 4 series @ 1 GHz plus and with a PowerVR graphics core like the OMAP 3 and 4 series (though a better/faster core at that).
It's used in the Samsung Galaxy S which is Android and in Apple's Ipad and Iphone 4 (though in slightly different form so apple can claim it's custom).

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OMAP and the A4 aren't processors, they are SoCs. In fact they have the same cpu inside, the almighty Cortex A8.

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But just because they're both based on the A8, doesn't make them clock-for-clock comparable.

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If the cache sizes are the same then why not?
They serve the same Instruction Set using the same Architecture.

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While you may be correct, I think the difference is about as noteworthy as people dropping hundreds of $$$ on video cards just to get a couple extra FPS in their game. Which is to say that if it looks like an A8, then it probably is just a plain old A8.

The Apple A4 has effectively been decapped (not literally that I know of yet) with pictures posted around. Here's a link to a couple

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IMHO upping the amount of RAM on these devices improves the performance more dramatically than upping the clock-speed.

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Anything from Intel would require a car battery or three to run more than a couple of hours. ;)

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I thought N900 Cortex a8 when overclocked to 900Mhz or 1 ghz beats the Snapdragon ... :-/ am i wrong? and the N900 can be used between 600-1ghz range comfortably i guess..so its a win for us. ><!

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I will be very disappointed if nokia don't adopt Omap 4 into their meego line the second it is available, they will need it for the GPU performance as much as anything else:

http://jedibeeftrix.wordpress.com/20...-tablet-phone/