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Freescale to show ARM chip at CES
TEXAS BASED Freescale Semiconductor will show off its ARM-based i.Mx chip aimed at the low-cost netbooks market at this week's Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
The company believes its processor will allow OEMs to offer netbook models priced at less than $200. It says the chip will enable a netbook with an 8.9-inch screen to have a battery life of eight hours.
Intel's Atom processor has so far dominated the netbooks market space, but that segment grew so fast in 2008 that competition is inevitable. AMD is expected to unveil a low-power chip intended for netbooks at CES, as well.
ARM-based processors have heretofore appeared mostly in mobile phones and PDA devices, but their relatively low cost will place downward pressure on netbook chip prices from the larger manufacturers.
Freescale's reference design runs a Ubuntu Linux OS. It has not revealed i.Mx chip pricing. µ
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to say... Any chance we could get RISC OS runing on this?
There. I feel so much better having stated that.
I always wanted a decent phone (PDA phones), why aren't there any?
Pls stick a couple of this thing into a PDA phone and start selling it. Can't be bother to wait for the Tegra, no one is using it...
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They probably just want to market it to what they see as an emerging platform. Developers are unlikely to develop for X86, PPC, and ARM based netbooks. With other manufacturers looking to produce ARM CPUs for netbooks, thats where the momentum seems to be. Plus the MPC5200 is based on a 400MHz 603e, a design that, while good, is unlikely to stand up against an Atom. They'd need to at least throw something similar to IBM's PPC750FX at it at a similar speed in order to be competitive. Since they had to design a new chip anyways, it makes sense to go with a platform that looks to have some legs and some other possible uses (i.e. Windows Mobile PDAs and Smartphones).
Strange that Freescale wouldn't use their own PPC (e.g. the MPC5200 low-power linux compatible embedded device).
That doesn't seem to bode very well for their own designs.
HB