On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Luke, I just want to poke in here and thank you for mentioning something -- I myself was thinking of poking you on the subject of Intel's Bay Trail stuff -- now I know :) things are never as simple as one wishes they were...
Oh well, maybe someday we'll get x86 stuff into EOMA68... that *would* be huge, IMO -- basically every standard PC (and Mac, now) runs x86... but I think I understand why it's not in the cards, yet.
it'll get there.
(I hate to ask, because of how dead-dog-slow their stuff is -- but what about VIA? Their Esther-core Eden ULV CPU is 3.5w @ 1GHz... of course then you stuff in the chipset and the RAM and the everything else, and you're probably way over budget, but I thought I'd mention it.)
correct. it's not just about the processor: you have to take into account the support ICs, in this case the southbridge IC (another 2 watts at least), then the 64-bit-wide DDR3 RAM (maybe even 128-bit-wide, i'd have to check) but just the CPU and the southbridge chip takes you over 5.5 watts... 0.5 watts beyond the external hard cut-off limit of 5.0 watts.
it really really is incredibly challenging to pick qualifying SoCs.
l.