Thread: Nokia + Intel - Does that mean we're going X86?
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jsa is offline jsa
2010-04-22 , 14:49
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Originally Posted by Bec View Post
Also as far as I know has ARM SoC been used so far anywhere else than in the iPad? (dumb question maybe but I was curious to see what CPU they re-branded this time so I read about the big SoC bla bla)
Yes, in every modern smartphone including the N900.

IMHO cash is the only thing that allowed Intel to outrun AMD (just consider the innovation amd brought - X64 and breaking the ghz barrier - how else could intel have prevailed if not my investing billions into research?).
IMHO it's Intel's anticompetitive practices that went on for years and for which they were fined 1,2 billion euros by the EU that allowed them to outrun AMD.

And in the end it's not about the race to idle or about the one with the greatest potential. It's about who makes himself popular first.
An ARM processor is used in pretty much every single phone(smart and dumb) and other electronic gadget you can ever think of that isn't a PC. ARM already utterly dominates the embedded market, it's Intel that's trying to squeeze in.
 

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