On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:11 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
Seems hard to believe that with such a low price point, AMD will deliver optimal pricing and that the target CPU throughput is not excessive with x86. Isn't it better for the longer term to only weakly couple the concept of the cheap laptop to a processor arch?
The choice of i386 was apparently largely influenced by the availability of a real FPU; something which wasn't really available in the same price/performance range on other embedded CPUs that were considered.