<div dir="ltr"><div>It might me more a matter of target market not a technical limitation. Why spend money to produce a chip that would have to compete with Intel and AMD? I would think most people using this chip would be working with a smaller embedded device o-pic to tablet sized. These people would naturally have smaller motherboards and less RAM. <br><br></div><div>Even on the lower end tablet, a company like Amazon can offset the cost of expensive chip by selling it "at a loss" because of the money they make from "selling services". A company like google can probably produce there own custom chips if they were so motivated. The nitch is hobby and very light embedded devices. <br></div><div><br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:06 AM, George Rosamond <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:george@ceetonetechnology.com" target="_blank">george@ceetonetechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mark Saad:<br>
><br>
>> On Jan 21, 2015, at 5:04 AM, Sujit K M <<a href="mailto:sjt.kar@gmail.com">sjt.kar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Hi Mark,<br>
>><br>
>>> I saw this today on slashdot and somewhere else, either way . It has<br>
>>> some interesting bits but I was 1/2 expecting it to be a ARM and not an<br>
>>> intel x86 isa. What are you thoughts on why no one has built a arm<br>
>>> laptop in this market with more then 2G of ram and a decent amount of<br>
>>> internal storage<br>
>><br>
>> Something like this. When I used ARM7V and ARM9V there was a crazy<br>
>> concept like bogo mips which is the number of cycles the processor cannot<br>
>> guarentee process anything. What I found was It causes performance hits<br>
>> when you add Memory/Storage etc. But I am not sure about this. Even<br>
>> I had raised a thread where I wanted to know about ARM Tablets @talk,<br>
>> eventually If that can be broadened to an ARM Processor with laptop capability.<br>
>> Even I am interested in owning a ARM Laptop. But cost might be the other<br>
>> thing too.<br>
><br>
> There has to be something to putting more then 2g of ram on a 32bit arm . This is purely anecdotal but if you check aliababa for arm gear it's all 2g of ram or less . Now this could be the market is targeting android and derived designs so there isn't any demand for it . However iirc the Samsung chrome laptop (the arm variety) is also 2g of ram . Maybe there is some issue we aren't aware of . In any case I would like to try an non-android arm laptop, that Is a laptop not a weird tablet thingy or a glorified media player .<br>
<br>
Part of the problem from my experiences is that the scope of the ARM<br>
hardware has been RPi and BeagleBones (phones, yeah, yeah, yeah), which<br>
dont go beyond 1G. Then again, give me a 700Mhz ARM chip with 1G of RAM<br>
over double than in intel land and I'm happy.<br>
<br>
With 64-bit ARM support coming to FreeBSD, I'm hoping our options in the<br>
future aren't just servers.<br>
<br>
g<br>
<br>
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