Thread: Nokia + Intel - Does that mean we're going X86?
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jsa is offline jsa
2010-05-09 , 20:01
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Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
I really don't know much about cpu architectures... but I don't understand why ARM is still alive. It's almost orgasmic to me thinking an Intel chipset could be use inside a mobile device (such as the N920+), lol, so why isn't it happening? Is the only reason ARM is still being used is because corporations can still squeeze a few profits out of it?!
A very rough example. You have a laptop and an N900? Let's assume you browse the web on your laptop and your N900 until the batteries run flat. You got maybe six hours of use on both of them. Now take out the batteries and compare them side by side. Imagine your laptop's battery being the size of the N900's battery, how long would it last? That's why ARM is used.
 

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