MikeCarter
27/9/06 3:42PM |
I expect it will be at least another 2 to 3 year before we here of castle test RO 5 with this new processor. Maybe they will write some RO 5 modules to use the second core. |
MikeCarter
27/9/06 3:44PM |
Correction of spellings and grammar : "Hear" and Years" |
tamias (-1.0)
27/9/06 4:16PM |
Heatsink? Fan? 75 degrees?! And it's not even clocked much faster than the IOP321... How long before Intel's "run it fast and hot" Pentium-style engineering ruins a fine low-power processor family, I wonder? |
johnpettigrew (+1.0)
27/9/06 4:35PM |
In reply to Tamias:
It's clocked up to twice as fast as the IOP321, and has up to 2 cores. That all adds to the heat bill. |
jymbob 
27/9/06 5:58PM |
In reply to tamias:
Could be a shrewd marketting ploy, what with the Core 2 Duo being so cool and nippy in comparison. |
jamesp (+1.0)
27/9/06 11:11PM |
We don't need to worry until a fan is bolted on top... |
JGZimmerle (+1.0)
28/9/06 1:59AM |
I think the 75°C are probably the maximum temperature the chip may safely run at. I don't think it would reach such a high temperature under normal operating conditions, but can be used in hot environments. |
AMS (+1.0)
28/9/06 7:17PM |
In reply to tamias:
I for one would be very happy to see ARM running "hot", using some juice and putting some pretty good performance out there. For too long the emphasis has been on "low power consumption" and not enough on performance. Moving the goal post towards higher performance may mean tolerating higher core temp/power consumption - but if you want fast that's what you have to put up with.
Having a large L2 cache, faster main memory controller, and higher clock rate means this processor will perform somewhat faster than a simple divide 800MHz by 600MHz would suggest. Anyways I'd be holding out for the 1.2GHz beauty...... |
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