Star Analysts Disagree Deeply Over ARM's Chances in Netbooks
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Mar 2009 17:23 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems To further prove that analysts' projections are just informed guesses, two major analyst firms just presented a completely different outlook on the netbook market and where it is going. Even though both project major growth, one of them sees a very bright future for non-Intel netbooks, while the other sticks with Atom.
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puenktchen
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@ deathshadow:

On speed the 1.6ghz Atom blows the fastest ARM chip out of the water - hell, the 1.6 Atom 945GCLF desktop board is as fast as an equivalent G5 iMac according to geekbench!!!


maybe according to this synthetic benchmark, but not according to reality. that's what counts, an that's where it's more like a 1,3 ghz g4:

http://www.appledifferent.com/2009/01/23/leo-in-the-sky-with-diamon...

the atom is faster where memory bandwith matters and slower when the g4 can use its superior simd-unit.

@ lemur2:

So, some high points of the A9:
... - 250mW per core, so 1W for the quad core


no - don't forget the caches etc.

I think you might find that the quad-core ARM Cortex A9 RISC chip has the Intel 1.86GHz single-core Nano CISC chip well and truly beat. Using less battery power.


you are comparing an atom processor which you can buy with a arm core design which won't translate into real products until

the second half of 2010.

http://focus.ti.com/pr/docs/preldetail.tsp?sectionId=594&prelId=sc0...

the arm processors which will be used in this years netbooks will all be single core designs. and that's fine with me, a single core will be sufficient if the gpu helps decoding movies etc. that's where an atom also doesn't cut it.

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Edited 2009-03-12 15:23 UTC

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