Thread: Nokia + Intel - Does that mean we're going X86?
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attila77 is offline attila77
2010-05-10 , 01:56
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#46
Originally Posted by ndi View Post
To be competitive, ARM RISC is increasing instruction sets while x86 is becoming more and more efficient, effectively leaning against each other. At some point, they will be roughly equivalent, and then x86 will kick asterisk because the compatibility base for x86 is huge.
Note that they will never be equivalent. ARM is far more modular and simpler in design, so unless something radical happens in X86 land (which is very unlikely), it will be cheaper and more efficient for years to come. The compatibility base is IMO overrated (what *exactly* do you expect to be able to do on a X86 phone that you weren't able to do on ARM, considering we're talking about Linux ?). The only place where there is a slight gain is the development, but with tools like the Qt SDK, even that advantage is fading.
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