Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 9/27/09 wrote:
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>none (none@none.com) on 9/27/09 wrote:
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>>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 9/27/09 wrote:
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>>>Wilco (Wilco.Dijkstra@ntlworld.com) on 9/27/09 wrote:
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>>>>The A9 pulled so much ahead of Atom that there is now a significant overlap
>>>>between high-end ARM and low-end x86.
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>>>Put down your crack pipe for a second and look at the
>>>facts. The current Atom has been shipping commercially
>>>for a year and a half while the A9 has yet to even reach
>>>silicon.
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>Actually test chips have been around for a while, and OMAP4 chips are sampling in Q4.

Interesting. Wilco, can you say anything re. what is approximately to be expected from production silicon (power range, clock rate range)? At least if the figures mentioned in ARM's PR of 2 GHz @ <250 mW/core from typical silicon are not overpromising?

Apologies if you already answered a similar question somewhere.