Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Sep 2009 23:50 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
"You know, it's been nearly forty years since Intel introduced the first microprocessor, and even at this late date the company comprises a whopping eighty percent of the global market for CPUs. But not so fast! Like an electronics industry remake of The Magnificent Seven (which is, of course, an American remake of The Seven Samurai) NEC and Renesas have teamed up with a stalwart band of companies, including Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Canon, to develop a new CPU that is compatible with Waseda University professor Hironori Kasahara's "innovative energy-saving software." The goal is to create a commercial processor that runs on solar cells, moderates power use according to the amount of data being processed (a current prototype runs on 30% the power of a standard CPU), remains on even when mains power is cut, and, of course, upsets the apple cart over at Intel."
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There is really no battle.
On the netbook front people want a full OS, if that is the standard then MS has that market on intel.
Intel wants to steal market share from ARM based processors, no different then MS wants to steal market from Google. In reality Google is not hurting MS but MS is thinking ahead just like intel is.
I mean people keep talking about devices here there in everywhere. But without software to run the devices those markets can grow but so much. MS is the big dog on the block and they will never re port the full version of Windows to anything but x86 and x64.
Linux is not going to take any market share outside of Android. But it remains to be seen how large Android's market share is going to become. Its not growing that fast. With Palm, MS and Apple out there it will be interesting to see how it all goes but I don't see Intel having issues anytime soon.