Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 9/16/09 wrote:
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/sep/16/mobilephones-netbooks
>http://www.arm.com/news/25922.html
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>This is a hardened 40nm dual core Cortex-A9 in power and speed optimized variants:
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>2GHz - 1.9W
>800MHz - 0.5W
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>I think this refutes the claim in another thread that an OoO core needs more power
>and must be lower clocked than an in-order core at the same process node.
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>Wilco

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220000596&pgno=2

And if we take ARM's numbers and benchmark assertions at face value and conclude it has an Atom-killer we must also remember that ARM is comparing an EDA simulation of a 40-nm processor core against a 45-nm/40-nm Intel processor that is in the field.

ARM's Osprey has not gone through TSMC as a system test chip yet. So by the time those Osprey processors are also in the field Intel will have, no doubt, fired its riposte.

Barcelona looked like an Intel killer too... before silicon. :-P