P.A. Semi was one of the original StrongARM designers. And since Apple
is an ARM licensee & uses ARM procs in all their iPods & iPhones, I
find it highly unlikely that the A4 SoC would be anything but ARM.
On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:58 AM, Attila Csipa <maemo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thursday 28 January 2010 16:36:16 Mark wrote:
The thing is, Maemo is only necessary on small devices with limited
screen
real estate and non-X86-compatible processors. In a tablet of the
iPad's
size, there's no reason not to use an Atom and full-blown desktop
Linux.
Mark
Finger based keyboardless input. That killed full-blown desktop
Linux and apps
right there. In fact, that is one of , if not the most important
reason why
the original TabletPC was a flop. I don't see any rationale in
(current-gen)
embedded X86 if you want linux on it, either, but that's just me
(ARM is
cheaper, is far more power efficient, allows always-on, and, with A9-
MPcores,
*at least* on par performance-wise).
Regards,
Attila
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