Intel Steers Aggressive Course While Apple Appears Rudderless

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But tracyanne, there is a Rule- never think good things about anything Enderle writes. It may even be a Law.

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nice try? not there? new technology? (scratches head)

Not telling Northern Territory next Time

I can't help but think of Ron Bugundy when I see that picture...

I can't help but think "What kind of doofus would post a photo like that?"

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"No text"?

Actually, on the topic of the Atom and its low power, one very impressive new device is TI's new OMAP3 which based on a ARM A8 core. They're talking about about laptop type abilities with handheld power consumption. It's 600MHz processor they're claiming 1200DMIPs from (and yes, MIPs are often a spurious meausrement for performance).

I was talking to a TI FAE and saying it sounded like it would be great in an eeePC type device and he said something which basically meant this is on the horizon. Some of the ones appearing soon will have a DSP coprocessor (which is generally the case with OMAPs) for things like MPEG decoding and they all support open GL with a built in graphics accelarator.

Bloke from TI reckons they already have things like OO running on an eval kit (like almost all embedded processors with MMUs these days, Linux is already ported to the eval kit) and that a small laptop in the style of eeePC would run all day on batteries.

Whole thing makes me wonder whether it would really be possible for another processor to muscle in on the x86 party or whether the x86 architecture is just too entrenched. TI are pretty scathing about the Atom and its "low power", so would be interesting to see an ARM based laptop on the market. I suppose one of ther many beauties of open source and Linux is it makes it relatively straightforward to port applications to different platforms.

http://beagleboard.org

That Ron Burgundy jazz-flute scene is ... comedy gold.