Paul, I've read the media releases. Has there been any real disclosure of what Crusoe is? Thus far I've only heard that its VLIW and can emulate anything. That gives me a good idea of what it is. Now what effort does it take for us to use it for what we want? Take care, David In <38872454.B2418502@troi.cc.rochester.edu>, "R. Paul McCarty" <rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu> writes: >Everyone talks about how ground breaking the new Crusoe chip is. And, I >admit it has some impressive innovations and is a really strong >challenger to the mobile AMD/Intel processors, but how much of an >improvement is this technology over say the StrongARM or Super H chips >that have comparable performance/power ratios? > >It seems like the only real advantage of Crusoe over StrongArm is the >fact that you can move existing desktop applications, and OSs directly >to the new chip from x86 architectures. Other low power chipsets require >alot of work to port an OS or application to the new chip, along with >writing a whole new set of drivers. I also suspect there are some memory >management and floating point performance issues that make the Crusoe >chip much more attractive for mobile computing then the other chips. > >If full blown Windows, and Linux ran on StrongArm would this product >still be as exciting? > >-Paul >-- > R. Paul McCarty / rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu / x52059 >317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 > Life is nothing if you're not obsessed. -Pecker >
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