Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 365 from 2003/3/28
Quote:
Jim wrote:
At first, I could not tell by the articles on this whether it was two pin compatible designs or one chip with both ISAs.
Now that I have realized it is the later.
I believe they are two different chips but pin compatible with each other. One ARM, the other x86.
This means they only need to build one motherboard. I'd imagine most of the chip is the same as well (CPU cores are surprisingly small these days).
