ARM at 28 nm This Year at Robert Pogson

2010 is officialy the year of ARM. They have a deal with Global Foundries to produce at 28 nm by the 2H 2010, in plenty of time for Christmas…

This is not just about mobile, folks. Sure, they can bring about increased performance and insane battery life, but these processors will do justice in thin clients, all-in-one PCs, smartphones, netbooks and compact PCs whose time has come. We no longer need full towers or part towers or mini-towers. These things will be small enough to fit in a mouse or a similar size package that can hold RAM, lots of RAM. Nothing prevents the stick of RAM from holding the CPU, doing away with a CPU socket in small systems. Nothing prevents the RAM, CPU, video etc all going into the display or keyboard.

ATX could be deprecated… except for non-racked servers and specialized video production set-ups.

Did I mention these things are small? At 28 nm the cores will be half the size of their 40 nm devices which are very competitive with Atom. Running GNU/Linux instead of that other OS, these new ARM CPUs will kick Atom with that other OS out of the park.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.