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Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:31 AM UTC

zokier wrote: post #9

kevbin wrote: post #5

I 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

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Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by kevbin » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 12:52 AM UTC

zokier wrote: post #9

kevbin wrote: post #5

I 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

I was making a funny. I'm hoping santa brings me an ARM netbook this year.

Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by roxyrohit » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 1:00 AM UTC

Thanks for post. It’s really informative stuff. I really like to read.Hope to learn a lot and have a nice experience here! my best regards guys!

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Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by roxyrohit » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 1:02 AM UTC

roxyrohit wrote: post #13

Thanks for post. It’s really informative stuff. I really like to read.Hope to learn a lot and have a nice experience here! my best regards guys! The" rel="nofollow">http://the-future.com>The Future --The Future

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Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by neilc » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 4:02 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #2

I 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.

Diversity for its own sake doesn't seem that compelling: there was previously much more diversity in CPU architectures, and presumably there were valid "evolutionary" reasons for that changing (e.g. network effects WRT software support, economies of scale WRT building foundries).

Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by jwilliams » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 4:53 AM UTC

rbanffy wrote: post #2

I 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.

The Instruction Set Architecture (e.g. x86) is pretty independent from the chip architecture nowadays.

Whilst this was a definitely trend over time, and there are earlier examples, AMD pretty much nailed it when they bolted x86 onto a RISC core.

Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by Aegean » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 7:45 AM UTC

agl wrote: post #8

joelreymont wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are you looking to make money?

... and where are you based?

Currently spread around the world as a few engineers. Works well so far. Planning to have U.S. presence - either boston or the valley, and been to the valley for exhibitions.

Making money is via dual-licensing the project. GPLv3 is too restrictive to deploy, so people buy a commercial one.

Skill set needed: Linux Kernel, C, Assembler, Linkers & loaders, Python.

Re: ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM

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Post by rbanffy » Thu, Sep 17, 2009, 6:38 PM UTC

neilc wrote: post #15

rbanffy wrote: post #2

I 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.

Diversity for its own sake doesn't seem that compelling: there was previously much more diversity in CPU architectures, and presumably there were valid "evolutionary" reasons for that changing (e.g. network effects WRT software support, economies of scale WRT building foundries).

The network effect around software support to binary architectures is irrelevant (next to, actually) when applied free and open-source software.

An ARM netbook has been proved viable regarding software availability because Linux-based netbooks have already proved themselves viable. The fact they employ x86 processors is a historical accident.