[Arm-netbook] SoC warp soldering risk?

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

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On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Bill Kontos <vkontogpls at gmail.com> wrote:
> Where does the 40% improvement come from ? I remember watching a video from
> Berkeley student where the improvement was "only" 11%.

 i read a paper somewhere where they'd put a RISCV64 design into
silicon @ 40nm, ran it at 1.5ghz... but i have, if i am honest, a
"fuzzy memory"

> The kirin 960 was a complete fail on their part. They downgraded the
> manufacturing node to one that has a lower frequency sweetspot but lower
> cost as well... still 14nm for whatever it's worth these days. On top of
> that, and especially on the gpu side they have very aggressive clock steps,
> even missing the efficiency sweet spot and resulting in peak draws of up to
> 10 watts. All for benchmarks on reviewing websites, most reviews just run a
> benchmark once and show the result but do not test overheating. Totally not
> suitable for eoma, no matter how much of a sucker for high performance I am.

 there's always the EOMA200 standard - one for the future (several
more years into the future).

l.