Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2008-08-23 , 20:39
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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
The difference being that ARM started out minimalistic and designing a small systems' design for their processor and systems. Intel starts out with the idea that is must be like the big systems (x86 compatible, PCI/PCIe/etc) so they're starting out inefficient and trying to make it more efficient.
Anyway in the picture there is also TI, for what OMAP is concerned. The ARM is a significant portion but not so large. DSP and interconnect take their good share of silicon and power.
But that's something Intel has to face as well.

Going up with speed is something that is proven to be the wrong answer.

Personally I'm skeptic about the extremely high number of general purpose cores as well.