[gentoo-user] Re: OT: but cool - NASDAQ is gentoo powered

[James]

Gregory Shearman <zekeyg <at> gmail.com> writes:


> Is ARM more efficient than the intel atom?

Overwhelmingly YES! check out this bad boy that runs 
gentoo: [1] [2]

ARM has chipsets coming in months that are being dubbed
"the intel killers" based on the A15. [3]

There are notebooks with arm processors:[4] like the
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer (dual ARM Cortex-A9, touchscreen.

The future is ARM, bro.... Super low power, clusters
being developed that control resources awake/sleep/awake
in micro seconds and full sata interfaces. Intel cannot
compete with ARM on similar power/heat comparisons.
Several large clusters are being design around new ARM
chips and memory resources on the same die.

Better start dumping that Intel/Nvidia stock!
Arm already rules the new carrier design wins competitions
according to chips vendors (FAE's) that I talk too.


Unless a miracle happens, Intel is doomed to follow
IBM and MS tainted hardware efforts. MS has many secret
porting efforts to ARM arch style SOCs, trying to avoid
another implosion on is doz lack_ware.....


hth,
James



[1] http://pandaboard.org/
[2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=4&chap=9

[3]
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4153/ti-reveals-omap-5-the-first-arm-cortex-a15-soc
[4] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4445/samsung-galaxy-tab-101-review