Everything we know is being turned on its head. It’s a brave new future. Or maybe we’ve woken up in 1994 again. Windows and Office on a different architecture? Tablets galore? My head is spinning. Let me just dial into my favourite BBS and rant about how I like things how they are. (N.B. the title is a Dutch phrase “In de hoek waar de klappen vallen”, meaning “in the corner where the punches hit”, relevant to our discussion of Intel and PS3 being completely caught out)
Here’s how the audio file breaks down:
| 0:00:30 | Intro |
|---|---|
| 0:02:30 | “Microsoft / Windows / NVidia / ARM” |
| 0:32:09 | “PS3” |
| 0:42:56 | “Mac / iTunes App Store” |
| 0:49:50 | Extro |
| 0:51:20 | (Total Time) |
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What’s Indehoekwaardeklappenvallen ? Some kind of Thai language or something?
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Durrrr
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It’s _there_, in the teaser!
. o O ( I mustn’t say it, I mustn’t say it, I mustn’t say it )
EDIT: I’m impressed by the number of vowels, considering the complete lack of vowel sounds in Dutch :p
Edited 2011-01-09 20:59 UTC
Have you ever seen written Thai? They don’t even use the Roman alphabet…
I have actually googled it! and many of the pages were some kind of thai pages..
If that’s the case and we’re really 1994, I’m going to the next electronics department and buy a lot of A1200s to save Commodore
. (Unless we’re pass April yet, then Commodore would already be bankrupt).
*scnr*
Adrian
Better go back 10 years more and buy it before Commodore does? =P
just a link to the presentation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvzJmRBS84w&feature=player_embedded
As I recall Intel did license arm designs and produced the original Xscale processors. At the time they were the most powerful arm socs and were found on the high end pocket pcs and other embedded hardware. At some point intel decided that they didn’t want to produce ARM anymore and sold the XScale stuff to Marvell who now produce the powerful armada ARM socs.
Doh! You’re right, I would have known this if I had thought of XScale. At some point I was going to comment that ARM is not one processor, it’s a collection of them, but I got sidetracked.
X-Scale (and derivatives) is pretty weak actually and use non-standard vector extensions.
I did say WERE (I should have also have appended “one of”)…and yeah they used mmx and other intel based simd extensions.
In any case the newer armada 600 chips are real beasts (it appears that the armada chips are not derivatives of Xscale). Then again just about any arm V7 chip these days is pretty much a beast, only thing lacking when competing with the likes of intel is out-of-order execution which is coming in the cortex A9.
Edited 2011-01-10 01:31 UTC
huh. Didnt’t know that.
A tablet or other mobile device with touchscreen with a keyboard is very interresting.
I guess the device mentioned in the podcast is this ?:
http://ces2011.t3.com/2011/01/05/samsung-tx100-unveiled-as-slider-t…
The problem is interfaces.
You have all these operating systems which are made for touchscreens, like iOS, Android and so on. Some don’t fit well on larger touchscreens yet, but they are still evolving.
And other ‘older’ operating systems which are made for keyboard/mouse use.
But when you have a device which is a touchscreen with a keyboard, is their an OS which has an interface which fits both use cases (yet) ?
As a webdeveloper I would say: HTML5 already fits that bill
But maybe I’m just seeing the same nails, because I mostly work with the same hammer.
Edited 2011-01-10 11:10 UTC
Existing systems run on existing servers, new applications and deployments can run on less power hungry ARM-servers.
Also these new ARM-based servers/chips support virtualization. Not sure if they will run x86.
Even with virtualization, ARM won’t run x86.
Not to worry though, there is a huge corpus of server applications for which the source code is readily available, and already ported to ARM.
http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/
http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/10/who-killed-the-intel-microprocesso…
nice article
but with 99% of the smartphone/tablet vendors building the same SOC out of different buildungblocks it begs the question if 2-3 optimised SOCs wouldn’t be the better solution
@Thom: that acronym exists in French: “société à responsabilité limitée”. I guess it’s the equivalent of an LLC if the LL is for “limited liability”.
…it was a very good year.
How about Microsoft nowhere/ever/anytime.
I’ve managed (unless Civ4+civ5 through wine counts)
I hate the company so much – I can’t think of anything that have actually innovated – except WGA
(I used to have a non crashing word processor for the Amiga in 1986 – it took Microsoft until 2001 and it was slow and expensive)
My computing life has been so much better without the destroyer of innovation.
i know that trolls live in caves, but at least try to sound credible