tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84889724183338239642012-02-16T20:38:26.669-08:00This blog is an adjunct to Roborat64's blog. My intent is to post longer, more detailed posts here and continue the discussion on his blog. Using this blog I can post images, which will make demonstrating the points I want to make much easier. Why not just start my own blog? Because I don't have the time to make the kind of posts I think a blog deserves right now (I've just enrolled in a MS program at GT). I also don't think it benefits the blog to balkanize it further.InTheKnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16869163385384973596noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488972418333823964.post-50361933227892937332010-11-02T21:29:00.001-07:002010-11-02T21:32:46.091-07:00

There have been several reports recently on Intel's agreement to build FPGA's for Achronix on their upcoming 22nm technology. As far as I know this is a first for Intel. Not only are they building someone else's designs on an Intel process, but they are building those devices on Intel's leading edge technology.Intel makes the most money off of their leading edge process. In recent

InTheKnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16869163385384973596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488972418333823964.post-86781885215186468372010-01-13T19:53:00.000-08:002010-01-13T21:35:01.852-08:00

In my previous analysis I did not look closely at the effects of Intel's process lead over the ARM products currently being manufactured. IMHO, process node isn't nearly as important as design for these small, low power applications.Let's look at Snapdragon in a little more detail to illustrate my point. I mentioned multi-tasking as an example of Atom having more horsepower than, comparable ARM

InTheKnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16869163385384973596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488972418333823964.post-84345890192727547692010-01-11T22:10:00.000-08:002010-01-11T22:11:28.955-08:00

Cross posted on Roborat's blogThe ARM architecture offers several advantages when compared to Atom. ARM has smaller die sizes than the Atom processors which gives ARM a cost advantage. Having been designed for use in space sensitive environments, the ARM core is smaller than the Atom equivalent. This is the case even though Atom is being manufactured on a more advanced process than most of the

InTheKnowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16869163385384973596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8488972418333823964.post-14960385729357674572009-08-21T22:05:00.000-07:002009-08-23T22:45:21.427-07:00

I've been thinking about this article from Tech report on AMD's Istanbul server chip. One thing that caught my eye was the SPECpower_ssj2008 score. The score they reported was quite a bit lower than the score at Spec.org. So I decided to take a more detailed look at this for myself.First let me explain the methodology I'm going to use. I intend to take the best overall model for a given set

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