Thread: Intel enters in smartphone market: Game Over for ARM.
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2012-01-12 , 16:55
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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
In case you don't know, almost every low-power smart device in this world runs on Linux or a variant thereof. That means ARM is supported out-of-the-box.
Well, yes, you got out-of-the-box-but-with-no-graphics support.
Very usefull for servers and routers, a bit less so for smartphones and tablets.
Not really a problem if you're a big company, you can buy the closed drivers with the hardware, but for start-ups and community, not so good (you're left with android basically, which is not really linux).

It's not really ARM vs x86 support that matters, it's this kind of support (documentation and sources*) vs, to my knowledge, any GPU constructor in the ARM world (although there are recent efforts for open 2D drivers from these constructors).


* I know intel's atom associated gpu driver support is rubbish, but at least some times it's correctly done.
 

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