[Arm-netbook] Report: ARM aims to take 20% of notebook PC market

[lkcl luke]

On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Tsvetan Usunov, OLIMEX LTD
<usunov at olimex.com> wrote:

> depend on what you have around the processor, A10 is very highly integrated
> the VGA/HDMI/Composite Video is all inside, which saves you space on the
> board and $$$ for external chips.
> Also power supply is very simple, generally to make A10 computer you need
> AXP209+A10+memory and some connectors, to make same with other processor you
> put lot of chips around it which rise the BOM

 yeahhh, there was one of the freescale ARM processors about 5-6 years
ago which had to be surrounded by level converters: they'd picked
voltages just at a time when everyone was converting to lower
voltages... whoops.

 l.