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Intel's StrongArm Roadmap

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the future-of-strongarm dept.

Midvale writes "PC Week article about the plans Intel has for the next set of StrongArm chips, .18 micron process, up to 600mHz. These things would be great CPU's for wearable computers." Its nice to see that this isn't gonna die out.

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  1. Re:StrongARM is an interesting little chip by SpinyNorman · · Score: 3

    The ARM is one of the few true RISC designs around, with all 32 bit instructions, and all instructions conditional. This is the reason for the tiny die size and low poer requirements. I used to work for Acorn Computers (the "A" in ARM) in the early 80's, and knew the main designer of the ARM - Steve Furber. As of a couple of years ago he was working at the University of Manchester (UK), where he had fabricated a fully asynchronous ARM CPU that he had been working on for years. This is basically a dataflow design, and (potentially) saves huge amounts of power by removing the need to clock the whole chip. The ARM was partly inspired by the 6502 which was what the early Acorn computers were based on, and was minimal enough to practically be a RISC design itself. Ah, the good old days...