Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel

Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by bogomipz on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @03:19PM (#18658502)

Thanks for the thorough detailed reply, I really appreciate it. I failed to grasp one thing you mentioned which is:

>"is actually an issue and that's part of why you don't see BIG.little approaches in x86 land and why atom did so poorly in the phone market."

Is BIG an acronym here? I had trouble understanding that sentence. Cheers.

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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by Symmetry on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:50PM (#18661251)

I was reproducing an ARM marketing term incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_big.LITTLE

Basically, the idea is that you have a number of small, low power cores together with a few larger, faster, but less efficient cores. Intel hasn't made anything doing that. Intel also tried to get x86 chips into phones but it didn't work out for them.

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Re:Amazon’s Chips Threaten Intel by bogomipz on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:20AM (#18664054)

Thanks, this is actually a good read and clever bit of marketing. Cheers.

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