Thread: What woud you realistically like to see in the N900?
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2008-08-23 , 20:32
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Originally Posted by igor View Post
Indeed: maybe one day Intel and ARM will be comparable in terms of power consumption - after Intel sheds some of the older layers of skin and drops legacy stuff like PCI. Not that ARM is not going the other way, so they will probably meet as some point, in the middle.
The difference being that ARM started out minimalistic and designing a small systems' design for their processor and systems. Intel starts out with the idea that is must be like the big systems (x86 compatible, PCI/PCIe/etc) so they're starting out inefficient and trying to make it more efficient.