[Arm-netbook] ziilabs zms-40

Vladimir Pantelic vladoman at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 11:07:56 GMT 2012


lkcl luke wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Bari Ari<bari at onelabs.com>  wrote:
>>  Yet another closed mystery ARM SOC only sold to a few secret customers?
>
>   yep.
>
>   it's actually a real pity, because it contains a very powerful cell
> processor.  and yes i spoke to them and was told "oh yes it's open,
> why would you want to program it directly??"
>
>   if it's being sold to china it wouldn't surprise me if it was being
> made available to them in order to allow china access to a
> supercomputer.  don't believe it?  read this:
> http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/01/02/0127236/nyt-ibm-pc-division-sold-to-advance-chinas-goals

4x A9 + cell puts it next to Tegra3 in terms of silicon area and thus price.
And T3 is not really "cheap"....




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