[geeks] iPad - a 'Miss' for me I'm afraid

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, nate at portents.com wrote:

> Beyond blurry - I'd argue the lines are unimportant.  Intel's Clarkdale
> 'CPUs' are already getting pretty close to a 'SoC', what with their
> in-package GPUs + memory controllers.

And we've gotten here from an era when a "CPU" probably had all its ALUs
contained, but may have externalised microcode, interrupt handling, the
MMU, etc.  What's in the package is a lot less interesting than how the
pieces are architecturally arranged.

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