Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: even the press likes us ;-) | Date | 26 Feb 1998 08:23:22 GMT |
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Followup to: <19980224213254.13519@uni-koblenz.de> By author: ralf@uni-koblenz.de In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > Probably was picked based on price/performance... my guess would be > > with emphasis on price. Alphas and SPARCs are both very expensive. > > Yes, that was the reason. The middle and lower class MIPS chips offer a > very good price / performance ratio. The high end MIPS stuff is expensive > similar expensive like other RISCs and also requires very expensive chipsets, > cooling etc. while the CPU used in the Cobalt product gets about 30 degrees > Celsius when loaded and stays at almost ambient temperature when idle. > Means there is not even a heat sink on the CPU and therefore the the Cobalt > system very silent - and reliable. >
What about StrongARM?
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