Windows tablets from Asus and Toshiba at Computex should tell us more about the progress of Windows RT.
Asus, Acer, and Toshiba will roll out a mix of tablets based on both Windows 8 and Windows RT at the hardware-centric Computex trade show next week, according to Bloomberg.
Windows 8 will run on chips from Intel, while Windows RT is powered by ARM chips from Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.One Asus tablet uses an Nvidia chip, said Bloomberg. CNET reported earlier in the month that Asus and Lenovo are expected to bring out Windows RT tablets built around Nvidia Tegra 3 chips.
A Windows RT-based Toshiba tablet is using Texas Instruments' silicon, according to Bloomberg.
This jibes with what sources have told CNET. Only a handful of Windows RT devices will be released initially from vendors such as Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, and possibly Hewlett-Packard, as Microsoft wades slowly into new Windows waters. Windows RT is the first mainstream desktop-class Microsoft OS to run on ARM processors.
One of the burning questions is whether conference goers will actually be able to use the devices. To date, Windows RT tablets displayed at trade shows and conferences have been inaccessible -- always encased in glass.
Acer, meanwhile, will show a Windows 8 device running on top of an Intel chip, according to Bloomberg. And Asus will show off a second device based on an Intel chip.
We don't have to be stuck in the past. Applications don't have to work the way they've always worked. At least ARM on mobile devices forces efficiency of code. It's good that it requires applications to be re-written with a new mind set.
If somebody really needs x86 power apps, I'm sure somebody can really find a netbook or ultrabook to meet one's need. I'm sure Android and Windows will very quickly run to a competitive device that runs x86, if competitive. What's the difference between an ARM app and an x86. Can't the software be exactly the same if the interface is the same (e.g. mouse and keyboard)?
Whats the difference in ARM and x86 apps???
Take a look. ARM apps have about 10% of the functionality of their x86 counterparts. Usually less!
I get what your saying about code efficiancy, and the x86 platform being bound by legacy restrictions in its instruction set. But seriously, ARM is just as bound by its RISC architecture. It will always take many instructions to perform an instruction that an x86 processor can acomplish in one, and the biggest factor... Intel.
Intel are several generations ahead in their fabrication technology than any other comercial fab plant on the planet. For years they have been pushing the bounds of Moors Law, and they have only recently switched their focus to low power portable devices.
Intels relentless "Tick/Tock" cycle is now pushing the boundries in this direction. 22nm fabtech. 3D transistors. 15nm fabtech.
It is very hard to compete with this. Ask AMD.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to make the fasted desktop computer in the world you would have been using AMD silicon.
In the future, if you want the fastest and most energy efficient tablet, you will be using Intel.
Any questions?
Intel is still several generations behind on power management. Latest ARM SoCs have fifteen to twenty power domains that are actively switched based on current processor load and usage.
There are also fully asynchronous ARM designs that allow each core to dynamically ramp clock rates based on software loads.
Current Intel SoC designs are lacking in both of these areas.
A Texas Instruments-based Windows RT tablet. To date, all Windows tablets running on ARM chips have been behind glass.
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Brooke Crothers)Asus, Acer, and Toshiba will roll out a mix of tablets based on both Windows 8 and Windows RT at the hardware-centric Computex trade show next week, according to Bloomberg.
Windows 8 will run on chips from Intel, while Windows RT is powered by ARM chips from Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.One Asus tablet uses an Nvidia chip, said Bloomberg. CNET reported earlier in the month that Asus and Lenovo are expected to bring out Windows RT tablets built around Nvidia Tegra 3 chips.
A Windows RT-based Toshiba tablet is using Texas Instruments' silicon, according to Bloomberg.
This jibes with what sources have told CNET. Only a handful of Windows RT devices will be released initially from vendors such as Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo, and possibly Hewlett-Packard, as Microsoft wades slowly into new Windows waters. Windows RT is the first mainstream desktop-class Microsoft OS to run on ARM processors.
One of the burning questions is whether conference goers will actually be able to use the devices. To date, Windows RT tablets displayed at trade shows and conferences have been inaccessible -- always encased in glass.
Acer, meanwhile, will show a Windows 8 device running on top of an Intel chip, according to Bloomberg. And Asus will show off a second device based on an Intel chip.
We don't have to be stuck in the past. Applications don't have to work the way they've always worked. At least ARM on mobile devices forces efficiency of code. It's good that it requires applications to be re-written with a new mind set.
If somebody really needs x86 power apps, I'm sure somebody can really find a netbook or ultrabook to meet one's need. I'm sure Android and Windows will very quickly run to a competitive device that runs x86, if competitive. What's the difference between an ARM app and an x86. Can't the software be exactly the same if the interface is the same (e.g. mouse and keyboard)?
Whats the difference in ARM and x86 apps???
Take a look. ARM apps have about 10% of the functionality of their x86 counterparts. Usually less!
I get what your saying about code efficiancy, and the x86 platform being bound by legacy restrictions in its instruction set. But seriously, ARM is just as bound by its RISC architecture. It will always take many instructions to perform an instruction that an x86 processor can acomplish in one, and the biggest factor... Intel.
Intel are several generations ahead in their fabrication technology than any other comercial fab plant on the planet. For years they have been pushing the bounds of Moors Law, and they have only recently switched their focus to low power portable devices.
Intels relentless "Tick/Tock" cycle is now pushing the boundries in this direction. 22nm fabtech. 3D transistors. 15nm fabtech.
It is very hard to compete with this. Ask AMD.
Once upon a time, if you wanted to make the fasted desktop computer in the world you would have been using AMD silicon.
In the future, if you want the fastest and most energy efficient tablet, you will be using Intel.
Any questions?
Intel is still several generations behind on power management. Latest ARM SoCs have fifteen to twenty power domains that are actively switched based on current processor load and usage.
There are also fully asynchronous ARM designs that allow each core to dynamically ramp clock rates based on software loads.
Current Intel SoC designs are lacking in both of these areas.
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