Intel Mobile Internet Devices

Ars Technica posted hands-on experience with an Intel Mobile Internet Device running Mandriva Linux. According to the pictures available on their page, the device looks very interesting with a slide-in keyboard.

What brought my attention was the ultra low-voltage (ULV) processor with a 3W TDP. FYI, the Intel processor A100 is running at 600 MHz and supports both MMX and SSE2 instruction sets. This newcomer with CPUID=06D8h just lenghtens the list of CPUs available with the same cpuid. I would be interested to know (i) how to detect it wihout using the model string, (ii) the actual performance (SPECint results anyone?).

Links:

• Intel Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) & Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPCs)
• Hands-on with a prototype Intel Mobile Internet Device
• OpenArena and Mandriva on Intel MID

Amusing note: it turns out the MID that was presented on behalf of Mandriva in the above-mentioned video by a half-nude guy was simply lost! Besides, the presented poduct is not referenced in Intel's UMPC products, neither is Mandriva announced as a supporter of this technology. At the Day 2 of the IDF in China, Chandrasekher only talked about Red Flag and Canonical (Ubuntu Linux). So, it looks like breaching NDAs doesn't matter to anyone nowadays!? Humm, I just had a ROFL time.

Hey, since you don't care about leaking information, what about sending me results of benchmarks running on those CPUs? A shell access to determine (i) would be nice too (cpuinfo –debug might help though). Thanks.