ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
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ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
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Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#2I hope this ushers an era of architecture diversity. Diversity is one of the most powerful tools in evolution's bag.
Besides that, this x86 world is utterly boring.
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#3That's why we dedicated one of our Google Summer of Code spots this summer to developing ARM support for x264:
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=142
Now we have most of the core DSP functions optimized for NEON SIMD, we can achieve realtime CIF video encoding on a ~400mhz Cortex A8. Now start doing the math...
A Cortex A9 is faster than an A8, per clock.
The chips are planned to scale up to 2Ghz, 5 times faster than ours.
Quadcores are already hitting silicon.
At this rate, there might even be a market for ARM servers in a few years--low-power, high-performance devices designed to minimize cooling and electricity costs in the datacenter.
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#4My startup is about virtualizing OS kernels on these processors.
I am a single founder and a kernel hacker. Single because not many people have enough skills + want to start a startup. I always wonder if there are any real kernel hackers here that might want to get involved. http://www.l4dev.org
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#5I think this might spawn a whole new category of very-small, energy-efficient laptops primarily used to access electronic mail, world-wide web sites, and those new-fangled instant-messaging services.
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#6My startup is about virtualizing OS kernels on these processors. I am a single founder and a kernel hacker. Single because not many people have enough skills + want to start a startup. I always wonder if there are any real kernel hackers here that might want to get involved. http://www.l4dev.org
How are you looking to make money?
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#7i love james hamilton's blog...dude needs to seriously invest in a new haircut though.
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#8My startup is about virtualizing OS kernels on these processors. I am a single founder and a kernel hacker. Single because not many people have enough skills + want to start a startup. I always wonder if there are any real kernel hackers here that might want to get involved. http://www.l4dev.org
How are you looking to make money?
... and where are you based?
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#9I think this might spawn a whole new category of very-small, energy-efficient laptops primarily used to access electronic mail, world-wide web sites, and those new-fangled instant-messaging services.
"Internet Tablet" ring a bell? Check out N900, it has quite nice ARM CPU etc
Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM
#10I think this might spawn a whole new category of very-small, energy-efficient laptops primarily used to access electronic mail, world-wide web sites, and those new-fangled instant-messaging services.
"Internet Tablet" ring a bell? Check out N900, it has quite nice ARM CPU etc
It's too tiny. My MIPS-based IBM Workpad z-50 did last 10+ hours on a single battery charge. My current computer is orders of magnitude faster, but it still can't go much longer than 4 hours.