ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law

ericatcw writes "For 30+ years, the PC industry has been as obsessed with under-the-hood performance: MIPs, MHz, transistors per chip. Blame Moore's Law, which effectively laid down the Gospel of marketing PCs like sports cars. But with mobile PCs and green computing coming to the fore, enter ARM, which is challenging the Gospel according to Moore with chips that are low-powered in both senses of the word. Some of its most popular CPUs have 100,000 transistors, fewer than a 12 MHz Intel 286 CPU from 1982 (download PDF). But they also consume as little as a quarter of a watt, which is why netbook makers are embracing them. It's 'megahertz per milli-watt,' that counts, according to ARM exec Ian Drew, who predicts that 6-10 ARM-based netbooks running Linux and costing just around $200 should arrive this year starting in July."

Comments

Arm?

[Anonymous Coward]

Grab my ARM an give me a Dutch Rudder, bitch.

Re:Smoore's law?

[Anonymous Coward]

People tell my I'm a pussy. I guess you really are what you eat.

Re:Still focus on a single metric

[chinakow]

Don't be a twit. Why the fuck would you edit movies or pictures on a netbook? You sir suffer from thinking everybody cares about you, they do not. Please stop. Regards.

Re:Nonsense.

[DarkOx]

Obama is a Muslim,

I don't care what he says. Its clear that he has parentage that was Muslim. He also attended Muslim schools. These things are facts. Its also true that you are not really permitted to leave the Muslim faith. Regardless of how Obama sees himself in terms of Islamic law as I understand it Obama is indeed Muslim, heretical perhaps but a Muslim all the same.

Its also evident from his politics he has Muslim leanings and is an antisemitic. All of his recent middle east actions have been to the detriment of Israel. Which I am sorry but no matter what you think of that situation; people need to realize the Israeli state is not going to willingly resolve itself. Israel has been a good and loyal friend to America in the region, pretty much or only friend. They have stuck by us, we should stick by them; its the decent thing to do. Obama though is a criminal through and through as near as I can tell and there is certainly no honor among thieves so I am not terribly optimistic.

I just hope his time in office is help to a minimal four years.