Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 18th Sep 2009 17:30 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
We all know (and love?) ARM as the company which focusses on licensing designs for power-efficient yet still powerful processors, mostly used in embedded devices. The Cambridge company has been looking to expand into the netbook market, and has now announced a new step in this process with a number of new multicore Cortex-A9 designs.
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What I'd be interested in would be a reallife test. Let someone do "common" tasks for different user groups (e.g. office users have different tasks than programmers) and see how far they will get, how long it takes etc.
The upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 in real life tests has just achieved a five second boot time on systems with SSDs.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/reviews/2009/09/ubuntu-910-alpha...
There is no reason why a dual-core 2GHz ARM CPU system with an SSD couldn't do at least as well as that type of performance.
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That has almost everything to do with the SSDs, and tweaking the init scripts, not so much the CPU. The real tasks to be concerned with are the likes of handling documents, browsing the web, etc.. They boast about theoretical potential, but we need to see some actual tests.
That said, even if it performs at 1/4 the Atom for real use, it will be compelling for netbooks, since you could have days of battery life, and/or netbooks well under 1lb, since RAM and display would be the dominant power hogs.
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2006-03-29
What I'd be interested in would be a reallife test. Let someone do "common" tasks for different user groups (e.g. office users have different tasks than programmers) and see how far they will get, how long it takes etc.
I really think that ARM is on the right track, the energy-saving track. E.g. looking at my AMD cpu, it runs 90% of the time at the lowest frequence (800 Mhz), saving a lot of power and ARM's technology would most likely be even more efficient.
Now if only graphic vendors followed that track ...