> I was in SoC design Cool. I want to have a beer with you and pick your brains. > Just look at some products: v1 is perhaps ARM and v2 suddenly is MIPS > (as an example) in the _same_ product. Do you mean that ARM is easier to work with, but MIPS is cheaper? And why would Atheros use a quad-core A7 instead of a single-core A9? -- Juliusz