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Oracle Won't Abandon SPARC, Says Ellison
fm6 writes "When the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems was announced, it was widely assumed that Oracle was interested only in Sun's software technology, and would sell or discontinue all its hardware businesses. Larry Ellison, in an interview just posted on the Oracle web site, says that's not what's going to happen. In particular, SPARC isn't going anywhere (PDF): 'Once we own Sun we're going to increase the investment in SPARC. We think designing our own chips is very, very important. Even Apple is designing its own chips these days.'"
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And yet I hear people talking as though ARM-based netbooks will be on the market within a year or something. What am I missing here? Is it all vaporware?
It's ridiculous. People say ARM is so much more power efficient, then forget that they have to emulate x86 because some video codec isn't written for ARM. A big reason people bought linux netbooks was to put bootleg Windows on them, to run Windows apps. Windows has like 90% of the netbook market now. ARM would have to be ten times better architecture than x86 to even make a dent in netbooks, and it's barely even 1.12 times better.
Hell, as phones get even more powerful we'll probably see the opposite... x86 invading phones. After all, how much cooler would an iPhone be if you could run crysis on it?