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Re:BPG Image format by cubancigar11 on Saturday December 06, 2014 @11:48AM (#8709526)
Hardware is real-estate in ever compacting mobile landscape.
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Re:BPG Image format by wolf550e on Sunday December 07, 2014 @10:55AM (#8712506)
When transistor size goes down, accelerators which are idle most of the time become cheaper. Your power budget doesn't allow you to run all the chip's parts at the same time anyway.

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