11 Feb
2013
11 Feb
'13
9:21 a.m.
On 2/10/13 5:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 02/10/2013 06:57 PM, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
I'm quite aware; I pay pretty close attention to the processor
market...but I always THINK of them as microcontrollers, because I use
them in that capacity every day.
Now, that Enynos board of yours...I had NOT heard of that. I think I
need to get my paws on one of those. Unf!
-Dave
Very cool stuff that Exynos4412 board. They have several others available too, it seems.
I may have to get one myself, and build something cool. :D Amazing how much stuff they
can
cram into a board, half the size of a credit card!
Incidentally, one could easily run a webserver with one of those and a 64gb. EMMC card
with
Ubuntu 12.10. They already have 2 gb. of RAM built-in.
Dave Land
Land Computer Service
I
don't think anyone views ARM as a dark hors contender at this point,
but I think a lot of people are going to be surprised when they move
into the server market. I know I was surprised to hear of the
server-class support chipsets being developed...While I love ARM (I work
with ARM every day) I'd never in a million years considered it for a
server platform. For no good reason, mind you, it's just that, in my
world, they're microcontrollers and barely anything more. (in my world)
Microcontrollers? Aye, there are plenty (untold billions by now, I'd guess)
of ARM chips out there whose specs qualify them as microcontrollers and
not much more.
There are also _other_ things ARM out there, such as this:
http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G13534…
Exynos4412 Prime, giving you 4 ARM cores clocked at 1.7 GHz and 2 GByte of
memory. In a board half the size of a credit card. I've got one sitting right
next to me, running Linux (Debian wheezy) just fine. Impressive little machine.
The power brick is specced at 10 Watts, and that has to cover USB as well.
The _massive_ proliferation of high spec ARM CPUs for smartphones seems to be
doing wonders for fueling advancement of the high end of the ARM platform.