Posts: 1397 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
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KennyR wrote:
x86 doesn't scale downwards, but ARM doesn't scale upwards. Both have tried to nibble at the territory of the other for ten years now, without success.
The lack of success of Intel processors in low-power consumer devices has little to do with technology and a lot to do with business strategy. There have been Intel-based smartphones that were competitive in terms of performance as well as battery life. But, offering more of the same is just not good enough to compete in this space. There is a reason why Freescale gave up on smartphones and tablets years ago...
Unless Intel can offer either clearly superior performance or substantially lower pricing, phone manufacturers have little interest to buy Intel chips when they can buy from Qualcomm or Samsung instead. Nobody is particularly keen to see Intel dominate smartphones in the same way they do desktop computers and laptops. If Microsoft Windows had not utterfy failed on smartphones, Intel may have had a shot but we know how that worked out.
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I'm still waiting for evidence of where ARM has successfully moved onto the desktop or laptop arenas. Or even game consoles.
How do you define success? Nintendo´s upcoming NX "game console" is said to use ARM chips.
