a new processor is emerging!

**craziii** · May 30, 2011, 12:47 PM

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21758

it is scaring the crap out of intel atm. a quad core 2.5 ghz is coming out! I can't wait for some comparison benchies. I guess i would be holding off my cpu + mobo upgrades.

**Big Boss** · May 30, 2011, 01:06 PM

ARM still has a long way to go before it can challenge x86 in the desktop environment. No point to hold off on any upgrades.

**craziii** · May 30, 2011, 02:15 PM

meh, I won't be upgrading anything till the next gen consoles are out. which is like 1 or 1.5 years away it seems.

**karamazovmm** · May 30, 2011, 02:35 PM

just meh all over the place. I dont even have that high hopes for the bulldozer.

**Crazyeyesreaper** · May 30, 2011, 03:59 PM

only good thing about ARMs quadcore is its AMD tech that made it possible all of ARMs cpus are built with AMDs patents etc in a license agreement, so ARM does well AMD makes money lol. anyway thats kinda off topic, the quadcore ARM is interesting but not a game changer its for tablets like the epic pos ipad etc lol

**Jaketh** · May 30, 2011, 06:56 PM

This is better

**craziii** · May 30, 2011, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by Jaketh

This is better

that uses 4 arm chips you know that?

**Jaketh** · May 30, 2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by craziii

that uses 4 arm chips you know that?

nope

**Freddie** · May 31, 2011, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by Jaketh

This is better

LOL it may have already been mentioned but Kal El is just technology that's been licensed from ARM, it looks good but then again it needs to be, Tegra 2 is a bit of a flop because at the end of the day why would any mobile manufacturer use Tegra 2 when Power VR's SGX 543MP2 can give 4 times the performance?

I hope ARM makes good in the mobile sector anything that breaks up the duopoly of Intel and AMD (and x86's monopoly for that matter) is good for us the consumers, they've sown up the ultra mobile sector (phones and tablets etc) so logically there next step will be laptops then maybe desktops. Intel have already blustered that Windows 8 ARM/non x86 edition won't support legacy applications which just shows just how serious a threat ARM is to Intel.

Time to buy stock in ARM me thinks! Rule Britannia!

**ROFL Copter** · May 30, 2011, 09:45 PM

What I don't understand is, why don't they throw out this 30 year old technology and actually do something new?

**irishron** · May 30, 2011, 09:48 PM

Companies are not willing to sink R&D into an if. Make it a when and they'll come up with a production schedule.

**karamazovmm** · May 30, 2011, 11:33 PM

its like a core duo or pentium duo arch, its a slapped together cpus with some bridge solution in between

**Darkpriest667** · May 31, 2011, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by Mr MM

its like a core duo or pentium duo arch, its a slapped together cpus with some bridge solution in between

I also heard from some people already testing them at a QC place that there are some bottlenecking issues with the intel one. I don't know anyone thats gotten their hands on the ARM yet.

**karamazovmm** · May 31, 2011, 09:01 AM

Originally Posted by Darkpriest667

I also heard from some people already testing them at a QC place that there are some bottlenecking issues with the intel one. I don't know anyone thats gotten their hands on the ARM yet.

what are you talking about?