Re: [OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer
Paul Looney wrote: On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Intel debuts SD card-sized computer http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-edison-sd-card-computer/ Looks like Intel really is getting serious about power consumption! They predicted a couple years ago that they could match, and eventually beat, ARM in power consumption by late 2013, and with Broadwell they did. They've always had an upper hand on ARM in terms of performance, so now the question is whether they can become competitive on price. Historically Intel's chips have been much more expensive than ARM's, but they've been putting a lot RD into shrinking the die and increasing the wafer size, so if this pans out their yields will be higher than those of the contracted ARM fabs, and hence lower at retail. If that happens we can expect the current trend, in which device types are already overlapping in capabilities as form factors diversify, to continue to the point where the current bifurcation between so-called desktop and so-called mobile systems becomes self-evidently silly. And then the cool gadgets arrive, with development accelerated by an ecosystem based around a single instruction set. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer
This could be the enabler for the true smart-watch (not just a phone accessory). ~Roger On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: And then the cool gadgets arrive, with development accelerated by an ecosystem based around a single instruction set. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
[OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer
Since Graham's hungry for posts here, this one may be off-topic but it's pretty exciting for all of us who love the prospect of running LC on tiny gadgets: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Intel debuts SD card-sized computer http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-edison-sd-card-computer/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer
Looks like Intel really is getting serious about power consumption! Paul Looney On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Since Graham's hungry for posts here, this one may be off-topic but it's pretty exciting for all of us who love the prospect of running LC on tiny gadgets: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Intel debuts SD card-sized computer http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-edison-sd-card-computer/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
