Turns out the processor executes 1.2 billion instructions per second, 400 million per core. Still not a whirlwind I would guess, but better than the number I quoted. Apparently, it's one of the most powerful -- and perhaps the most powerful -- for an automotive infotainment system. There will be a development kit abd app store, but Cadillac will approve all apps.
Paul On Feb 9, 2012, at 3:26 PM, John Francis wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 01:09:02PM -0700, steve harley wrote: >> >> my laptop does about 100,000 mips (without considering the GPU) > > Are you sure you didn't add an order of magnitude there? > > > A quad-core, 3GHz processor has 12,000M core-cycles a second. I find it > hard to believe that even modern processors dispatch 8 instructions > per cycle in a single core. > > Mind you, your main point - that a 400MHz processor is a bit underpowered - > is spot-on. My new cellphone, for example, has a two-core, 1GHz processor. > That's about 5x what Paul quoted for the in-car entertainment system. But > the car system also controls more important functions (keyless entry, for > one), so it has to be significantly more robust than one used in a phone, > where the worst that can happen would be a dropped call. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
