[Gllug] Sharp Zaurus

[Walid Shaari]

On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 11:59, Richard Cohen wrote:

> AFAIK, the battery profile of the XScale is broadly similar to the StrongARM
> - i.e. nothing like x86.  It does, however, have some design and/or
> implementation flaws in the earlier models which mean that the performance
> of a 400MHz XScale is nowhere near the performance of the 200MHz StrongARM
> and can, in fact, be slower... I don't know if there are devices shipping
> yet with the newer model XScale...  I think the PXA250 has the problem and
> the PXA255 fixes it, but I could well be wrong...

No you are not :) that's what I have seen in the /. commentaries they
are speculating that the 5600 will be shipped with the newer PXA255 for
the same reasons you mentions above. the main difference is that the
PXA255 have 200 MHz memory bus, as opposed to the 100 MHz used by
PXA250. 

Walid.




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