HP Prime use ARM 9?

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(07-19-2018 02:05 AM)Claudio L. Wrote:  Logical? I don't know, but a cool illogical one could be something based off of the Parallela board. The HP Prime is a good calculator, so why not give it 32 gigaflops?
But it might be too power hungry for a handheld, I don't know.

The Adapteva board with a 16 core Epiphany chip required a 5V 2.5A wall wart supply, but that was mostly the fault of the Xilinx Zynq chip. A multi-core ARM chip like that used in cell phones or tablets would be a better choice, but to what purpose? Admittedly, a multi-threaded HPPPL would be a sight to see!

As a side note, Andreas Olofsson, single handedly responsible for the design and tape-out of the 16-, 64- and 1024-core Epiphany chips has moved on to DARPA. Adapteva remains a viable company producing products available from Digi-Key.

~Mark