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MrGrim is offline MrGrim
2009-10-29 , 11:46
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#24
Originally Posted by Nexus7 View Post
He kinda lost me at "But the Cortex A8 is built using 65nm transistors, which makes it roughly twice the size (and thus twice the cost to manufacture) of an ARM11 core (which has 90 nm transistors)".
I'm pretty sure it means size as in "number of transistors". Smaller transistors on the same-sized chip = more of them. And yes, 65*2 is not 90, because, as it has been pointed out, it's not something linear.