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Intel powers an ArduinoIntel powers an ArduinoPosted Oct 7, 2013 5:36 UTC (Mon) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640)In reply to: Intel powers an Arduino by khim Parent article: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)
From the Quark Developers manual, quark is clearly a 486 core. Even if the manual is quite clear not spell it out loud, all the instruction timings match with the 486 counts...
This is the first rasberry pi killer that is actually slower than rasberry pi.
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Intel powers an Arduino Posted Oct 7, 2013 6:31 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
They can clock 486 to much higher frequency.
Intel powers an Arduino Posted Oct 8, 2013 5:53 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Probably. But they are not doing that: this thing is only clocked @ 400MHz. If it's Pentium then 400MHz is in “not superfast, but faster than many others” ballpack, if it's 80486 then it's in “WTF?” ballpack. Adruino says it's 400MHz 32-bit Intel® Pentium instruction set architecture (ISA)-compatible processor o 16 KBytes on-die L1 cache which does not say us much: 80846 and Pentium has very little difference from is ISA POV and later models of both had 16 KByte cache thus 80486 looks plausible, too.
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