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    News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    The PC chip giant was in bullish mood at MWC 2010, predicting great things for its mobile phone processors.
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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    "Outperform" is a rather loaded statement when it comes to mobile computing. Exactly what is Intel going to outperform ARM on? For instance, historically x86 has always delivered better raw performance over ARM, but the battery rarely lasts the day with x86, and it would on ARM. The 'news' is uselessly ambiguous.
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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    I would really disagree with that.

    When the strongARM first came it out it was FAR faster than the x86 at the most commonly used type of arithmetic instructions. If you think of those that would be used for browsing the net, or office use, it was un-doubtedly faster, whilst using MUCH less power. Iirc the strongARM had a tiny heatsink, no fan needed of course.

    The thing is when doing an apples to oranges like this it is easy for both sides to claim they out perform at certain types of operation.

    The question really is, do intel mean Performance Per Whatt!
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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    I was talking raw performance, not clock for clock. But ++ to that too.
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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    If MS did a build of W7 for ARM chips Intel would be in serious trouble in the netbook business - as it is ARM have dominated mobile for years. I have a little dream of a tegra 2 + multi core ARM + hybrid eink/lcd + W7 tablet..
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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    Quote Originally Posted by dangel View Post
    If MS did a build of W7 for ARM chips Intel would be in serious trouble in the netbook business - as it is ARM have dominated mobile for years. I have a little dream of a tegra 2 + multi core ARM + hybrid eink/lcd + W7 tablet..
    Compiling W7 for ARM would be a huge project!!! Not to mention the compatibility nightmare with all the applications people would expect to run on Windows but now wouldn't... MS would have to do ARM builds of Office, Works etc as well and set up a whole developer relationship for 3rd party software.

    About as much chance of it happening as there is of it turning out that Elvis and Lord Lucan are alive, leading the Illuminati and with ET assistance taking over the world in 14 seconds.



    More likely IMHO we'll see Windows Mobile 7 (that's built for ARM already) running on tablets as well as phones, sort of like what some have tried to do with Android. Wonder if there will be an X86 build of WM7 for Moorestown?

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    Re: News - Intel says it will out-perform all ARM chips

    Well I did say *dream*

    But yes Windows Phone 7 Series could be a good basis for things
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