[maemo-developers] Best format for SD ?

From: pHilipp Zabel philipp.zabel at gmail.com
Date: Wed Apr 2 19:47:30 EEST 2008
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:27 +0300, ext Marius Vollmer wrote:
>  > "ext Klaus Rotter" <klaus at rotters.de> writes:
>  >
>  > > Charles Werbick wrote:
>  > >> [...] ARM simply cannot compete with a Pentium III CPU at 1.5 GHz and
>  > >> 12 watts total dissipation. I predict that the n900 series, should it
>  > >> reach production, will run Intel and not TI silicon.
>  > >
>  > > The N8xxs have a 1,5Ah x 3,7V = 5,5 Wh accu. A 12 W design will run out
>  > > of power in less than half an hour.
>  >
>  > Charles is missing a dot: "The chips have a thermal design power (TDP)
>  > specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz [...]"
>  >
>  >              http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080302comp.htm
>
>  Anyway that's still insanely high: 0.6-2.5 watt is for a pocket stove,
>  not an handheld device.

According to Wikipedia it can idle in the 0.01 W to 0.1 W range. But
this is still just for the
processor core, chipset & peripherals not included...
Are there similar estimations for power consumption of OMAP35x
processors produced in 45nm?

cheers
Philipp

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