ARM-based processors to overtake x86 competition in netbooks and MIDs by 2013?

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/22jan109wb345t.jpg (http://www.abiresearch.com/press/1586-ARM-based+Processors+Will+Overtake+x86+in+Ultra-mobile+Devices+in+2013)We suppose industry analysts must be paid on account of just how grand their prognostications are. ABI Research know-it-alls have come out with their own spectacular claim today by asserting their expectation that x86 processors -- still dominant the world over -- will be swept aside in the rapidly developing "ultra-mobile device" space by the ascension of ARM-based processing architectures. That the Cortex CPUs have grown in popularity (and power (http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/16/arms-cortex-a9-beats-atom-n270-too-bad-its-not-2008/)) is undeniable, but who realistically expects Intel to sit back and watch all this happen? The x86 patriarch has even gone and created an Atom SDK (http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/03/intel-brings-out-atom-sdk-wanting-more-apps-acts-oblivious-to-w/), so we hardly expect the forecast table above to become reality. We're just happy to see that ARM's lower power profile (http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/24/intel-concedes-arms-superiority-over-atom-fake-iphone-crisis-a/) is attracting investment -- it's always good to see a threat to Santa Clara's chokehold on the CPU market, and AMD's sleepwalking through the past few months hasn't helped things. Now if only those Tegra 2 smartbooks (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/asus-pegatron-neo-with-tegra-2-hands-on/) were on retail shelves instead of inside prototype shells, we could get started on this supposed revolution.ARM-based processors to overtake x86 competition in netbooks and MIDs by 2013? (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/arm-based-processors-to-overtake-x86-competition-in-netbooks-and/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).


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