Thread: Quim keynote on Maemo's switch to Qt as the main toolkit
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-07-07 , 09:50
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#64
Originally Posted by lma View Post
Sure, current x86 chips don't have the power management features of current ARM chips, but there's nothing in the instruction set that dictates that, it's simply that they have been targetting the PC market so far.
Not really. There have been low power/embedded x86 versions quite a while now, even from vendors other than Intel (see geode). x86 (like ARM) isn't JUST an instruction set, it's a platform and brings quite a bit of baggage (which you need to carry on to be compatible), and instruction sets are just a facet of that. The two ways they can overcome this is that they break compatibility (not really x86 then, is it?), or make fabrication improvements WAY beyond any ARM licensee (not gonna happen in years).