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NiLuJe · 05-05-2015, 11:31 AM

The interest with the iMX chips is that they bundle the eInk controller, which is always a plus.

I seriously doubt the interest of a multi-core chip for general purposes eReaders (no multitasking, and nearly nil background work, so parallelization loses its interest), but the jump from A8 to A9 (iMX5 -> iMX6) is certainly a very noticeable bump in quality of life (at least it was on Kindles, we'll se how Kobo handled that with the Glo HD, which apparently uses an iMX6).

05-05-2015, 11:31 AM	#9
NiLuJe BLAM! Posts: 13,479 Karma: 26012494 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Paris, France Device: Kindle 2i, 3g, 4, 5w, PW, PW2, PW5; Kobo H2O, Forma, Elipsa, Sage, C2E	The interest with the iMX chips is that they bundle the eInk controller, which is always a plus. I seriously doubt the interest of a multi-core chip for general purposes eReaders (no multitasking, and nearly nil background work, so parallelization loses its interest), but the jump from A8 to A9 (iMX5 -> iMX6) is certainly a very noticeable bump in quality of life (at least it was on Kindles, we'll se how Kobo handled that with the Glo HD, which apparently uses an iMX6). Last edited by NiLuJe; 05-05-2015 at 11:34 AM.