[Arm-netbook] Allwinner outsells Intel

[joem]

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 19:12 +0200, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
> On 05/09/2013 03:41 PM, joem wrote:
> 
> > You are going somewhere I do not wish to follow - HPC - its a completely
> > different subject.
> >
> > Lots of IO port pins are available, and first target for me at least
> > is simple low cost assembly of images in a conveyor to replace
> > proprietary graphics cards. So if product has to play video and do some
> > simple game like functions, then copy and paste two CPUs, interconnect
> > some IO pins to compose images and transfer images between CPUs to
> > destination CPU that has the LCD. At $20 per A10 chip + 1GB RAM +
> > components, no one batter an eye lid if the solution works.
> 
> you are going to transfer video data between CPUs using some GPIOs?
> 
> Intel is safe for a few decades at least...


With Allwinner outselling Intel, I'm sure they are.


800x600 pixel x 24 bit colour * 60Hz refresh / 32 bit GPIO transfer bus
= 21.6 million GPIO operations per second per video stream which
theoretically leaves a 1GHz A10 Allwinner CPU idle 98% of the time.
Add in the overheads, and I'd be happy if the CPU was 90% idle.

And I do think the graphics controller IP trolls should be very afraid.
They peddle nothing but misery, and if they continue like this
it will all get replaced with software and cheap parallelled up CPUs
at higher system cost, but without their misery infecting new systems
that hold back high quality graphics engines in consumer products.