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	allnameswereout	2009-01-10 , 17:51
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Originally Posted by Frank Banul

I read about AMD's latest processor, or Intel's latest processor with a maximum power draw of 200 Watts or so. Then I think of all the things I can do with my puny OMAP2 tablet that does everything with around 1 watt or so. Is there a comparison?

There is a bogus comparison indeed. No recent Intel or AMD CPU has a TDP of 200W. The embedded Intel and AMD CPUs use under 100W. And this is only the CPU, not the entire architecture. TDP has different meaning at AMD and Intel, and idle W of AMD is much better than Intel. These Intel and AMD CPUs are meant for desktop, workstation and servers. They provide much more power than your OMAP2. You can underclock them, and use technologies like SpeedStep to save power.

If you want to compare you compare with stuff inside laptops such as AMD Turion, Intel Core 2 Duo or stuff inside netbooks Intel Celeron, Intel Atom or stuff inside embedded computers AMD Geode, VIA Nano, NVidia Tegra (uses ARM11), or other low-end ARM, POWER and MIPS, or other embedded SoC.

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