Star Nvidia, Via Prepare to Take On Intel
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jun 2008 19:58 UTC
Hardware, Embedded Systems For year now, the x86 microprocessor market has been dominated by Intel and AMD, and the rivalry between the two companies forced both to be innovative in order to gain a competitive advantage over the other - benefiting customers. With the rise of 'mobile internet devices' and low-power budget notebooks, this new market will be enriched by not only Via, but also nVIDIA.
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TemporalBeing
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One advantage that Linux and the BSD's have in this arena is portability. There are already ARM ports. Windows currently is tied to X86, even though NT was ported to Alpha and MIPS, so perhaps it could again be ported (I doubt it). Instead, only Windows Mobile competes in this realm. I afraid I'd much rather have a nice Ubuntu or FreeBSD with Firefox or Konqueror than WM with IE. Go Free OS's!


Except with regards to what Intel's Atom and similar processors (such as this one from nVidia) - Linux and the BSDs would likely be competing with WinCE, which is already on ARM, probably MIPS too. (If I recall correctly, most WinCE devices are ARM-based, not x86-based; at least historically.)

BTW, when a vendor wants to support WinCE, they get the source code to modify too - at least for device manufacturers. So they can port it to whatever platform they choose to.

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