On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
RISC-V is *significantly* less power-hungry, performance/watt. also, those 3 watts will include a Monster GPU, which will be being used for accelerated graphics. and, there will be *two* 32-bit data-wide DDR3 interfaces, not the one. that'll be 600mW minus the interfaces btw (including DDR3 driving and GPIO).
The A72 which they quote as their target is consuming 700-900 watts per core, let alone the entire package. If they can drop power consumption that much( assuming a quad core ~75% less power consumption) then this is way more revolutionary than I thought.
Does that cover all the specialized hardware and video accel too?. What's your definition of a monster gpu? Running 1080p at 60hz on a browser is a must imo and wether we like it or not wayland is the future so it will also need some sort of opengl compliant gpu just for futureproofing.