Cerb
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- Aug 26, 2000
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Idling, sure. So far, every time, there's been a comparison at the same Wh, but the resulting devices never get the same Wh batteries. So it ends up being 2 hours to 10 hours, but by the time you get the smaller device with 10 hours, the more powerful device gets 4 hours--you can usually get a bigger battery for it, too, which you typically can't for the smaller device. For the monumental performance difference, you'll need something else to make that 10 hours worth it.The trade off being that the battery would run for about 10 days instead of 2 hours.
There's a middle ground there, somewhere, but at ARM's current progress, and assuming they either (a) integrate big.LITTLE fully into their designs (so it's no worse on the integrator than than a single soft core), or (b) start racing to idle like Intel, we're a good 3-5 years out, right now, in the best case, IMO.
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