[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[nate at portents.com]

> True, but I wouldn't be surprised to find a single SiCortex MIPS64 node
> that draws 5.4W can outperform a single 1600MHz Atom core (given
> decently parallelized code), and probably two.

Agreed.  I didn't mean to imply that Atom was somehow better than a MIPS64
implementation just because I called it "beefier" - I only meant to imply
that despite Atom being slimmed down from a lot of x86 out there, other
architectures like MIPS64 (and ARM) can still be more efficient.

- Nate