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Subject: Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:46:01 +0100
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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?
>
> 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
>
> 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.