Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On Fri, 17 Jan 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 17/01/2025 09:20, D wrote:

I wonder if linux + modern work such as spreadsheets and audio/video calls would be possible on those minimum-power ARM chips or if they are too slow?

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I do not know how true this is, but by suspicion is that if you could take a Pi and underclock it by about 1000, it might prove alarmingly economical
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Speradsheets would be no problem but processing video takes a shit load of CPU.

Yes, this is the truth! And as web camera resolutions increase, it gets worse and worse.