On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > The octa core SoCs available right now are rather terrible when it comes to > heat and power management
yyeah, that's no surprise. what's really nice about RISC-V btw is that it's something mad like a 40% performance-watt improvement over ARM in the same geometry. > ( like the kirn 960) and we are rather limited by > the fact that everything has to run on libre software well, there are plenty of companies that _don't_ (so it makes no sense to copy them or compete with them).... and the burden is enormous on absolutely everybody. yet nobody's even *tried* an entirely libre approach *despite clearly knowing the advantages*! http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Intel-and-Valve-collaborate-to-develop-open-source-graphics-drivers-1649632.html l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
