Thursday, November 7, 2002
Battling brothers - XScale or StrongARM Processor?
Posted by Jason Dunn in "ARTICLE" @ 12:10 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/mobile/02q4/021107/index.html
Tom's Hardware has published an article on some of the issues with StrongARM CPUs vs. Xscale, but the author doesn't go into much detail on the real crux of the issue. The battery life tests are interesting - I still don't have an Xscale device to do battery tests on. It's interesting to see how poorly the Loox fares in some of these tests.
"In the market for a new PDA, but don't know which one to buy? The choice just got murkier. Should you get an expensive model with the latest Intel XScale processor, or can you get by with a cheaper version based on its older brother, the Intel StrongARM processor? The new Intel XScale PXA-250 CPU is already cranking away at 400 MHz in the Asus MyPal A600 and the Fujitsu-Siemens (FSC) Pocket Loox. Yakumo's Alpha, has to make do with the widely used StrongARM processor SA-1110 and 206 MHz."
Tom's Hardware has published an article on some of the issues with StrongARM CPUs vs. Xscale, but the author doesn't go into much detail on the real crux of the issue. The battery life tests are interesting - I still don't have an Xscale device to do battery tests on. It's interesting to see how poorly the Loox fares in some of these tests.
"In the market for a new PDA, but don't know which one to buy? The choice just got murkier. Should you get an expensive model with the latest Intel XScale processor, or can you get by with a cheaper version based on its older brother, the Intel StrongARM processor? The new Intel XScale PXA-250 CPU is already cranking away at 400 MHz in the Asus MyPal A600 and the Fujitsu-Siemens (FSC) Pocket Loox. Yakumo's Alpha, has to make do with the widely used StrongARM processor SA-1110 and 206 MHz."
