Azazel (no@mail.com) on 12/15/11 wrote:
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>an (an@yahoo.com) on 12/15/11 wrote:
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>>All that is easy to say, however for years Intel has aimed at getting an x86 processor
>>into a cell phone. I have not seen one yet, so I tend to think the reality makes
>>it far more difficult to match arm on power than you suggest.
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>May be it's due to x86 performance grew in much higher pace and therefore x86 chip complexity.
>Maybe Intel should has re-thought its goals in mobile to reduce chip complexity,
>for instance, drop support 16bit, legacy FP, x64 (at least for time being) etc.
>How many transistors current version of ARM has?
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I have thought along those lines too. It would be nice to start a line of embedded system chips with the obsolete features cut out. Their is plenty of baggage that can be thrown out in sectors where complete backward compatibility is not important.