Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition i980EE Broadcom BCM54980 Type 6 core CPU 8 port Gigabit PHY Geometry 32nm 90nm Operations Per Second 127 Billion instructions per second 4,800 Billion operations per second Power 130W 4.0W Operations Per Watt 976 Million Ops/W 1.2 Trillion Ops/W Of course, this is an unfair comparison, but it shows you: [...]
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This EE Times article lays out BMW’s plans for Ethernet in the car.
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The following shows a timeline for gigabit PHYs from 1999 until today. Missing are Realtek and Attansic. GigPHY_timeline I updated the doc to show the trends on a per-port basis for cost and power. While the PHYs have different MAC interfaces, and some press releases quoted in 10K and others in 1K quantity, you can [...]
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