Intel powers an Arduino

Posted Oct 7, 2013 13:57 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Intel powers an Arduino by marcH
Parent article: Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

> In SoCs like Quark, the *entire* CPU core is small compared to the rest of the SoC anyway.

I don't understand how that matters to what I said.

They obviously do the SoC thing because it's cheaper to produce computers were everything is in one big integrated circuit and it's more power efficient. It significantly reduces cost of the device because you can significantly reduce the complexity of the mainboard and such things. All the little chips and power converters you would need otherwise adds up considerably.

But that doesn't nullify or contradict the fact that x86 ISA causes significant overhead for the CPU that ARM doesn't have to deal with.

Intel powers an Arduino

Posted Oct 7, 2013 21:14 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> But that doesn't nullify or contradict the fact that x86 ISA causes significant overhead for the CPU that ARM doesn't have to deal with.

It does not nullify or contradict it (another discussion); it makes it irrelevant.