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And now it is even easier with one of these

This isnt all that interesting unless these chips have a linux port and you can build a cluster of them.

I was about to say "RTFA," but the Register article doesn't mention that these chips are MIPS-compatible. They did link to this page, though, which mentions Linux as one of three supported OSen.

(Then again, timothy provided the same link...so maybe "RTFA" is an appropriate response after all. :-) )

http://www.alchemysemi.com/product_info/secure_dat a_book/Au1100_databook.pdf

grnbrg

yes ARM arch is nice and well designed ISA

and yes transmeta have not got a hope in this area
(anyone with any experance in building real embeded systems knows you cant afford 16MB for code morphing or have the fact that it might not execute in 25 cycles )

but really Intel with StrongARM2 (aka Xscale) has the ropes nobody can licence this off intel so ARM's bussiness model goes out the window
and TI who just use ARM to get their DSP going well
(lets face it a phone is just a DSP and so is a MP3 player (watch out empeg))

both of these dont licence so the only thing that ARM has left is ARM7TDMI and derivertives + makeing up new extenions to arch + macrocells

yes ARM is nice but with Intel killing ST and the rest I dont see where any more revenue comes from for ARM the company

+ the fact that all WinCE XP will be Only ARM
(suspect that Intel cuddled up to MS and got them to see reason much like symbian)

just watch out for MIPS
(I saw a dual 64bit 1GHz on one chip which was nice)
and for SOC parts there is always the ex strongARM design team http://www.alchemysemi.com/

which seem to be doing very well with more on chip and lower power than StrongARM + can alter clock speed

lets face it MIPS is one of the oldies but goodies

regards

john jones

> Incidentally, many of the StrongARM guys went to Cadence. Anyone know anything else?

Alchemy Semiconductor, Inc. doing a high performance low power SOC embedded MIPS32.