Comments on: Wanted: Faster, More Powerful iPhone Processor Architect + Embedded Video Engineer

By: Al

Al — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:52:12 +0000

This is a bit off subject but I wanted to know if anyone could enlighten me on this. Yesterday I was at the Sony store an saw a 12″ OLED screen for $2500. Can someone tell me how Apple can feasibly include a 3.5″ OLED screen in a device that is going to cost $199 (I realize that includes a carrier subsidy)? When you include all of the high-tech components in the iPhone 3G and add (without taking anything away) a compass, OLED screen, increased storage capacity, perhaps a better battery (yes, I type this assuming the iPhone spec rumors are true)… How can a device with these specs remain at $199, I do not under stand this and in fact, I find it hard to believe that the new iPhone will include these screens. I think they will stick with LCD for at least one more cycle.

By: pcdsim

pcdsim — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:43:23 +0000

I smell 4G for next year, OH YES!

By: duodenum

duodenum — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:38:19 +0000

John Carmack

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:49:41 +0000

I just want less lag lmao..

By: Will

Will — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:01:48 +0000

Hmmm…. if they have only just started looking for an NEON SIMD specialist then its unlikely that we’ll see a Cortex-based iPhone in June or July. Sigh

I also highly doubt that Apple will be using a multi-core ARMv7 (Cortex-A9 MPCore) anytime soon. I reckon most applications made for the iPhone won’t be able to effectively take advantage of multiple cores.

The single-core 600 MHz Cortex-A8 (like the OMAP3 used in the Palm Pre or the Pandora) is already 3x more powerful than the 400 MHz ARM11 CPU in the current iPhone. I think this is a good compromise between processing power and battery life. More general-purpose cores would make the chip larger, more expensive and power hungry.

BTW, NEON is a SIMD extension to the ARM instructions set just like AltiVec is a SIMD extension to PowerPC instructions set and SSE is a SIMD extension to Intel x86 instructions set. Using NEON instructions should reduce the power required to decode audio and video.

Wikipedia has a lot of good information on ARM. Take a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture

By: mike

mike — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:40:43 +0000

Something smells very fishy!!!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:35:47 +0000

Well, I guess that leaves me out.

By: frog

frog — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:18:05 +0000

One hell of a team there building!