by aolofsson » Sat Mar 30, 2013 2:52 pm
Please take my concerns with a truck load of salt since I am clearly biased, but these are the things I would be concerned about. The performance is clearly quite good. There are lots of great application processors out there. (Samsung Exynos, and Qualcomm Snapdragon are equally impressive)
Concerns:
1.) Can you get the complete spec for the Tegra 4? Datasheet?
2.) Are the drivers open source?
3.) Is that really 1 Watt when running full throttle parallel code? (video decode doesn't count if there is hardware accelerator for h264 or something similar). No magic here. Power is proportional to area,and the Tegra 4 is a large 28nm chip.
4.) Can you buy the chip in small quantities?
5.) Can programmers access all the resources on the chip to make full use of it (through OpenCL or something similar?)
Andreas