Pocket Wars and Cores 159
An anonymous reader writes "If I were to ask you what is the most popular processor used in phones and pads, and you said, 'ARM,' you would be correct. Now comes the trick question, 'Who make ARM processors?' Not the ARM Holdings company. They design processors and license their designs to manufacturers. They also have a reputation for creating very low power designs. Interestingly, while almost everyone else was out ramping clocks and power consumption (until they hit a wall), ARM was chugging along addressing the low power end of the market. Now that low-power is all the rage, due to phones and pads, ARM has become quite a bit more popular."
whats the news here? (Score:3, Insightful)
ok, so?
(qualcomm, intel, samsung, marvell, etc.)
Wrong logo (Score:4, Insightful)
Why the Intel logo for this story? They're ones who do *not* make ARM processors, ever since they sold that business to Marvell (oops). I guess the TI logo isn't as cool.
Where's the news for nerds in this? (Score:3, Insightful)
I had always loved Slashdot, but is there any alternative community run site without the Slashvertisements?
Re:It's a bit more complex than this article... (Score:5, Insightful)
A single amd64 core can emulate an arm core from about the same market segment via qemu. A cross-compile which on my lousy $400 6 core desktop takes 44 seconds needs 132 minutes natively on 1 core n900. For any activity that actually needs CPU power, x86 chips are not going away. If something replaces them, it'd be something designed for speed -- rather than 8086 compatibility or low power.
Yet, for most daily uses, you don't need much CPU power. We got so used to "Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" that most people forget they ran software with about the same functionality ten years ago on machines a hundred times slower. Dropping some of worst software bloat can get us a really long way.