Extra Extra, read all about it! NVidia unveils its first CPU for PCs
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I use an atom in my home server as I dont need much processing power but do need it on all the time to run exchange, do backups, share files etc. Total power usage according to my UPS is around 20W. I don't know how much of that is the atom though, I'd have thought things like the hard disk would consume more power than the CPU. Don't know how SSDs compare with this.
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http://infoworld.com/d/hardware/nvidia-unveils-denver-its-first-cpu-pcs-746[^]
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With the luck I have had installing NVidia drivers, this is scary! :sigh:
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I do not foresee the end of them, economies of scale and all that, but ARM will become a major force. Nice to see a British company do well!
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"The downside is that software written for x86 chips will need to be tweaked before it can run on ARM systems." Tweaked or completely rewritten? Still it'd be good if it could run managed .NET code I guess.
Dave Parker wrote:
Tweaked or completely rewritten? Still it'd be good if it could run managed .NET code I guess.
For .net it just mean a CLR being written against the ARM chip.
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Dave Parker wrote:
Tweaked or completely rewritten? Still it'd be good if it could run managed .NET code I guess.
For .net it just mean a CLR being written against the ARM chip.
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well. nobody can say the way I say it! :rolleyes:
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http://infoworld.com/d/hardware/nvidia-unveils-denver-its-first-cpu-pcs-746[^]
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x86 is an unstoppable juggernaut; every time to dethrone it has failed. The sheer amount of apps, OSes, backwards compatiblity, I don't see ARM becoming a de facto desktop CPU standard. Maybe if you port Windows (desktop Windows, CE is crap) it will be used.
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That's only true for apps not p/invoking 3rd party C/C++ libraries...
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So you'd have to make ARM Windows OS fully compatible against the windows SDK, which it would implicitly would be because you'd be running windows :rolleyes:
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So you'd have to make ARM Windows OS fully compatible against the windows SDK, which it would implicitly would be because you'd be running windows :rolleyes:
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No. I was referring to native code binaries. If you don't have the code, you can't recompile it for arm; MS'd need to implement a virtual x86 to run them, and that isn't in the cards.
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Dan Neely wrote:
; MS'd need to implement a virtual x86 to run them,
Or some kind of WOW subsystem.
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Dan Neely wrote:
; MS'd need to implement a virtual x86 to run them,
Or some kind of WOW subsystem.