[faragon]

Anyone knows how far is Apple from getting the following desktop system as one SoC?

- 4GHz 12-core 64-bit ARM OooE with 256KiB L2 cache per core

- 12MiB of L3 cache

- Integrated graphics with 128MB eDRAM

- PCI-Express buses

- 35 GB/s DDR4 memory controller

- 5-65W power usage

[wmf]

4GHz 12-core in 65W isn't going to happen. (Intel is currently at 2.1GHz: http://ark.intel.com/products/93356/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1... )

Hurricane could probably run at 3GHz but to get to 4GHz might require serious work. Apple hasn't used eDRAM but in theory they could adopt it. The rest looks like no big deal.