Phawx
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Did anyone see that they are going to be producing the new Cortex A9 on 28nm process. That is insane! I was so sure when I read that headline, I thought to myself, "Holy shit, the Pandora forums are going to be flipping the fuck out." and then I check and no one mentions it. So I say, "Well someone will mention it."
And then ED has to come along and make an announcement of cool things and I guess everyone forgot. Well Tough Titties!
In case the manufacturing process went over your head, Intel is only STARTING work with 34nm Process and newer GPU's are done with a 40nm process.
What does a smaller process DO, you might ask (smugly with Starbucks coffee in hand)?
EVERYTHING. Less Energy, Higher attainable frequency. AKA, FTWW = For the Win/Win.
All this time I thought Intel was the king of Fab tech and then out comes Global Foundries (A spin-off of AMD) and they got there shit down to a very small process. I guess we can attribute this to a simpler design. ARM vs current x86 / GPU's. But I mean, DAMN 28nm, I thought that was two years away. Basically this Cortex A9 from Global foundries will be in the most bad ass mobile devices next year. Obviously OP is going to want to wait for the software to mature and sell quite a few more regular Pandora's before moving on. But in 3-4 years time. If Global Foundries does this again with Cortex A9 successor, it will be tits!
Pandora 2 is looking like it will take significantly less energy and be many times more powerful. We should already start on PS3 and Xbox 360 Emulation. You know, for the future.
And then ED has to come along and make an announcement of cool things and I guess everyone forgot. Well Tough Titties!
In case the manufacturing process went over your head, Intel is only STARTING work with 34nm Process and newer GPU's are done with a 40nm process.
What does a smaller process DO, you might ask (smugly with Starbucks coffee in hand)?
EVERYTHING. Less Energy, Higher attainable frequency. AKA, FTWW = For the Win/Win.
All this time I thought Intel was the king of Fab tech and then out comes Global Foundries (A spin-off of AMD) and they got there shit down to a very small process. I guess we can attribute this to a simpler design. ARM vs current x86 / GPU's. But I mean, DAMN 28nm, I thought that was two years away. Basically this Cortex A9 from Global foundries will be in the most bad ass mobile devices next year. Obviously OP is going to want to wait for the software to mature and sell quite a few more regular Pandora's before moving on. But in 3-4 years time. If Global Foundries does this again with Cortex A9 successor, it will be tits!
Pandora 2 is looking like it will take significantly less energy and be many times more powerful. We should already start on PS3 and Xbox 360 Emulation. You know, for the future.