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Re: Intel's Silverthorne, MID, UMPC, Future ARM Killer?

by Herbert Graf-2 :: Rate this Message:

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On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 09:50 +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3230
>
> It seems that Silverthorne is an interesting product which may fuel
> the growth of MID and UMPC. It might even be a killer for high-end
> ARM processor in the future

Absolutely.

> (further power consumption reduction
> is necessory to beat ARM).

Is it necessary? While reducing power further is certain good, I don't
think Intel needs to match ARM to beat ARM. x86 is such a powerful
benefit to these CPUs, ARM will have to bring MANY advantages to the
table to beat the x86 compatibility.

Just IMHO.

TTYL
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