Low power consumption, high performance… any chance we are going to see an 8 or 16-core version for a laptop?
My Lenovo ThinkPad P14S Gen 5 AMD 8845hx (96b/4tb) motherboard decided to brick itself, so while I wait (going on two weeks now) for a 1 hour mainboard swap I’ve decided to pull the trigger on an MBA M4 16gb/512gb as I’m going away next week and want to continue working on some of the projects I’m interested while on the plane and in the evenings when the kids go to sleep.
So while I await the text message to pickup my next laptop (shot-out (I’m an MTV gen X’er, that’s a thing for us) to Solomon Pond Mall Apple store in Marlborough, Massachusets) I was thinking, with the specifications of the Ampere CPUs it should be possible to create a low powered edge deployment device, sort of like an insitu K8S cluster build or something that could be used as sensors or something else that requires little power and cooling; then from there I took a leap and thought how awesome it would be to have a laptop built around a cutdown version of the ampere CPU.
Just a thought while I’m waiting for my next device.
This is something a friend of mine thought about at SCALE 22x, he came up with a concept of an Ampere laptop. It would be chonky but could have decent battery life. Considering Q64-22 draws at most 69w, typically under a full load, the additional components of the motherboard, memory, storage, screen, etc may not be too significant. I speculate that it could work with 400w of power. But depending on the battery, that would impact the amount of hours.
Now I know @JoeSpeed did share a rack mount Fly Away kit. I wonder what sort of power requirements that system has and how little power you could get it to run off of.
1.5" too long! - I did have a hair brained scheme to fit a Mt Bonnell board into the case of an Amstrad PPC 512. The brick power supply would have been a bit hefty.
The fly away kit is 384 cores and can go up to 500W. It’s more of an Osbourne 1 proposition
