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To: fastpathguru who wrote (255560)	8/13/2008 2:05:17 PM
From: wbmw	Respond to of 275872

Re: Geode is designed for low power, critical in OLPC. FPG, I am not advocating the P4. It was a data point to resolve the argument about performance. Please try to keep up. The data point shows that Geode has lower IPC than Pentium 4, and only 500MHz of clock speed to boot. Granted this is on a 130nm process, but that's all AMD has to work with right now. Atom clocks at 1.6GHz, and at this speed it's approximately at the performance of a 1.2GHz Pentium M. Since Pentium M is >2x better in IPC than Pentium 4, we can probably say that Atom is >2x better IPC than Geode. With the >2x clock frequency advantage and >2x IPC advantage, the gold medal goes without argument to Atom for low power operations, just like the OLPC. It's why every vendor out there is building systems around Atom, and OLPC is the last man standing for Geode. But that's probably because they don't have the resources to explore another design (and at the same time made the decision to shun Intel's offer to help design in an Intel CPU - their choice, but they'll have to live with the consequences).