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Posted 18 May 2012 - 04:55 AM
I personally agree with your assessment of the market right now. I believe in a few years, it might be ARM that is the one that is getting driven out of the market. Intel has the best manufacturing facilities on the planet period, and they own them. They are 2-4 years ahead of anything that TSMC or Samsung can make.
Just my opinion......YMMV......
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Posted 18 May 2012 - 06:35 AM
ARM isn't ever going to beat Intel because ARM chips simply can't do what x86 chips can.
1Ghz on an ARM chip is not the same as 1Ghz on an x86 chip. ARM chips are perfect for small mobile devices because they sip power and the apps they push are not powerful.
Example? Look at the vast majority of the games. Most of them are simply reskinned games we played on Atari, Nintendo an Sony consoles and portable game systems. Those games ran on CPU's that were as slow as 3mhz. Taking that same game and give it 64M colors doesn't change the game play all that much. Throwing 1Ghz or dual or even Quad at them is just dumb.
The so-called productivity apps avail on ARM devices are very stripped down counterparts of the real things. Yes they are ok for simple things like budgets, notes, typical games and lite editing, but x86 is the king of power that ARM simply can't match.
Server-side applications are perfect for ARM because the vast majority of thr work is being done by the server. All the ARM device has to do is display the content which requires very little to no power. x86 is like haing the power of a server on your desk.
Until office applications aren't even needed, ARM is the one that could end up going the way of the dodo.
Intel is the Microsoft of software, they aren't going anywhere for quite some time.
1Ghz on an ARM chip is not the same as 1Ghz on an x86 chip. ARM chips are perfect for small mobile devices because they sip power and the apps they push are not powerful.
Example? Look at the vast majority of the games. Most of them are simply reskinned games we played on Atari, Nintendo an Sony consoles and portable game systems. Those games ran on CPU's that were as slow as 3mhz. Taking that same game and give it 64M colors doesn't change the game play all that much. Throwing 1Ghz or dual or even Quad at them is just dumb.
The so-called productivity apps avail on ARM devices are very stripped down counterparts of the real things. Yes they are ok for simple things like budgets, notes, typical games and lite editing, but x86 is the king of power that ARM simply can't match.
Server-side applications are perfect for ARM because the vast majority of thr work is being done by the server. All the ARM device has to do is display the content which requires very little to no power. x86 is like haing the power of a server on your desk.
Until office applications aren't even needed, ARM is the one that could end up going the way of the dodo.
Intel is the Microsoft of software, they aren't going anywhere for quite some time.
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