One day you are strolling the hallways in search of inspiration, when you bump into a person from the marketing department.
The marketing department has been out surfing the web and has noticed that companies are advertising the MIPs/mm2, MIPs/Watt, and Watts/cm3 of their products. This wide variety of different metrics has confused them.
Explain whether each metric is a reasonable metric for customers to use when choosing a system. If the metric is reasonable, say whether "bigger is better" ( e.g. 500 MIPs/mm2 is better than 20 MIPs/mm2) or "smaller is better" (e.g. 20 MIPs/mm2 is better than 500 MIPs/mm2), and which one type of product (cell phone, desktop computer, or compute server) is the metric most relevant to.
The marketing department has been out surfing the web and has noticed that companies are advertising the MIPs/mm2, MIPs/Watt, and Watts/cm3 of their products. This wide variety of different metrics has confused them.
Explain whether each metric is a reasonable metric for customers to use when choosing a system. If the metric is reasonable, say whether "bigger is better" ( e.g. 500 MIPs/mm2 is better than 20 MIPs/mm2) or "smaller is better" (e.g. 20 MIPs/mm2 is better than 500 MIPs/mm2), and which one type of product (cell phone, desktop computer, or compute server) is the metric most relevant to.
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