My yahoo search "crusoe+chip" got me to the news release and the last paragraph suggests a partnership in the works, likely with Sun. Last summer Sun was all fired up about their upcoming Java chip. Some time in October, the chip's due date, they backed off that project, opening the door for independent developers to follow up on that goal. Now consider what this long-instruction-word processor might be good for: a Java Virtual Machine emulator perhaps? We'll see... In article <2_Kh4.17279$pb2.1369285@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>, David LaRue <DLaRue@NetSRQ.Com> wrote: > 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 >> > -- Alex Vrenios Ph.D. Student Computer Science Dept. Vrenios@enuxsa.eas.asu.edu
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