Thread: Nokia + Intel - Does that mean we're going X86?
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2010-04-22 , 11:20
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Originally Posted by Bec View Post
Perhaps not the atom. I remember reading about a new CPU type specially designed for handsets but I have no idea where.

Anyway the atom is not doing that bad either: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-...=0&wprime_32=0

The Z550 @ 2GHZ 45nm and 2W but again... single core.

In what concerns resourcefulness I trust intel.
On the other hand I have never considered an ARM as a CPU - more like a chip if you ask me.
I remember there was a time when I had some black intel chip that used to be cooled by two mini fans placed sideways (pentium1 perhaps?) put that was a long time ago.

Now I'm rather used with tiny shiny silicon capsules that have "diffused in france" written on them.
Hence diffusing (some complicate process involving a silicon dye and a nuclear reactor) and other complicated processes I read about make me believe that X86 must be something far more advanced than ARM.

I'm willing to bet on intel since they've always had the monetary resources to come up with the best CPU there was - as far as power management goes, we can just wait and see.


That number is for the cpu only and doesn't include the gpu, memory controller, and so forth. The whole beagleboard consumes about the same as that atom cpu alone. If the 28nm SOI deal between ARM Holdings and Global Foundries happens, then Atom will lose its's fabrication process advantage and possibly it's performance lead as well. It's hard to envision Atom catching up to ARM in efficiency, but ARM is closing the gap in software performance; and when you acount for the hardware DSP's, one can argue that the arch is already there.