Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 6th Jan 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by caffeine deprived
It seems that after Intel, just about every chip maker wants a piece of the netbook pie. AMD is an obvious competitor, but VIA is also eyeing the little notebooks. However, more exotic options like the Chinese Loongson chips and ARM's Cortex A-8 and A-9 chips are also among the contenders. We can now add a new contender: Freescale.
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I guess you include the SPUs in the CELL figures, so it's a bit biased to compare a PPC +8 DSP-like accelerators against a single x86. The SPU are fine for doing some DSP acceleration, they are of little value for a desktop plarform used for text processing or surfing the web.