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Chromebooks, OP1, ARM, and Xscale

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From the «as long as it's got spyware I'm happy» department:
Title: Solving the mystery of the OP1 processor in the Chromebook Plus
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 19:10:43 -0500
Link: http://osnews.com/story/29679/Solving_the_mystery_of_the_OP1_processor_in_the_Chromebook_Plus

Turns out the processor/SoC in the latest two ChromeBooks - the Samsung models
- are part of a wider program by Google. The OP1 is built by Rockchip, which
has made ARM processors for a while and isn't especially well-regarded among US
consumers. And, strangely enough, even discovering that Rockchip makes the OP1
took a bit of sleuthing. The company doesn't have its brand anywhere near the
Chromebook Plus. Also, the chip is called the OP1, which implies that there's
going to be an OP2 and OP3 and so on. What exactly is going on here? Just what
is OP? Well! Turns out there's a website for answering that exact question,
helpfully named whatisop.com. OP is a designation for SoCs that are optimized
for Chrome OS. Naturally, I assumed it was a Rockchip brand - but that's not
the case at all. And the website ostensibly designed to explain OP to us
doesn't tell us who owns it (and it's even registered anonymously), so OP
strangely mysterious. Mystery solved: OP is a trademark owned by Google, and
bestowed on SoCs that meet a Google spec for a good Chrome OS device.
Basically, if a Chromebook has an OP processor, it means that Google certifies
that it’s been optimized for Chrome OS. Everybody is racing towards ARM
laptops. Intel's decision to sell Xscale is probably going to be looked back
upon as one of the worst decisions in technology history.


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