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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Maybe not, but maybe so. There are two issues with the "screen change"-- one is the refresh rate of the e-ink display. A new CPU won't change that. But the other issue is how long it takes to render a page to put it up on the screen. That can be sloooooow on current readers. On some PDFs-- especially graphic-heavy ones, it can take several seconds between pressing the page-change button and the reader changing the page. That can't be blamed on the display, that is the CPU. If they can make a faster, more optimized CPU (without vastly increasing battery drain and heat production) it is possible to make page changes "nearly instantaneous" in that factor.
(Okay, there is a third bottleneck in page changes-- the read speed for the flash memory-- but I doubt that it is a significant factor in blocks of memory as small as the page of a book.)
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There's a fourth problem. Marvell has gone the "we're only interested in 'serious developers' route" and refuses to release tech docs (even for money) unless one works for a firm with a history and is willing to sign a highly-restrictive NDA. Thus, the true innovators who'd drive this to market are excluded because they work out of their garages. Sigh! If Jobs and Woz were to attempt to start up Apple today, they'd still be sitting around the garage, swilling beer and twiddling their thumbs!
Derek