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New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades

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Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades

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meanwhile the latest and greatest 2015 device is an all-day wristwatch the weight of a pack of cards [1] (for the smaller Apple watch [2]) that in Apple's own "watch test" tells time for up to 48 days before dying --- whoops, no, I meant 48 hours [3] : >Testing conducted by Apple in March 2015 using preproduction Apple Watch and software paired with an iPhone using preproduction software with 5 time checks (4 seconds…

This reminds me of the people who, at the dawn of the smartphone age, were proudly boasting of their dumbphone's week-long battery life vs. the nightly recharging required by smartphones.

Until they realized they were completely missing the point, since they were comparing a phone to _a pocket computer with a constant data connection_. Most have since stopped boasting and just silently plug in their phone every night.

Re: New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also on Forth instruction sets: http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/index.html#GA1...

Not trolling... is this still a going concern, shipping eval boards, etc? I saw this a couple of years ago, someone commented on HN, and then nothing. I liked the eval board specs and it seemed reasonably priced given the low volume (maybe a hard sell when STM is all but giving away kits).

I got my eval board one year ago. I'm sure if they had closed shop they'd have put a warning on their site, but you can always email them to make sure.
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