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walsufnir on 19 June 2013
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ironmanDX said:
walsufnir said:


What I want to know is: how much power is needed for this? It'd be nice if MS would have a low-power-mode, running everything on an arm-device.

Good point... I know what an ARM device is (very) briefly, what do you mean by it? Aren't they generally used in portable devices like the NDS?

Could MS just use it as a pass-through device that automatically just displays what the HDMI in port is sending and powers down everything else, like a monitor or TV? If that's what you meant then never-mind!


You are right, ARM-devices are known to be used in NDS. But also in GBA and 3ds and most of the smartphones/tablets.

Wii and WiiU also have a small arm-chip aswell as PS4. The nice thing with arm-chips is you can build "your own". You can build an soc with it which helps with dedicated chips like you want: Security, encoding, decoding and other things. PS4 and Xbone are said to feature arm-chips especially for security-reasons and also feature a low-power-mode for certain tasks so that you don't need the APU all the time.