ARM Hopes To Lure Microsoft Away From Intel

Steve Kerrison writes "With the explosion of netbooks now available, the line between PC and mobile phone is becoming much less distinct. ARM, one of the biggest companies behind CPU architectures for mobile phones (and other embedded systems), sees now as an opportunity to break out of mobiles and give Intel a run for its money. HEXUS.channel quizzes Bob Morris, ARM's director of mobile computing, on how it plans to achieve such a herculean task. Right now, ARM's pushing Android as the OS that's synonymous with the mobile Internet. But it's not simply going to ignore Microsoft: 'What if Microsoft offered a full version of Windows (as opposed to Windows Mobile or Windows CE) that used the ARM, rather than X86 (Intel and AMD) instruction set? Then it would be a straight hardware fight with Intel, in which ARM hopes its low power, low price processors will have an advantage.'"

Comments

ARM? x86?

[Yvan256]

You will kneel before Z80!

Re:ARM? x86?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because Adobe can't code shit.

Hey, you take that back! My laptop is pretty bottom-of-the-line these days, and about the best it can do with open source software is scale 480p video up to ~1067x800 fullscreen; it can't even do 720p without dropping frames.

But with Adobe Flash Player? It can play 320p video, as long as you don't dare to hit the fullscreen button. I'd say Adobe has proven that they're quite capable of coding shit.

Re:ARM? x86?

[AliasMarlowe]

That's because Adobe can't code shit.

But they can and they do!

Some ARM twisting going on?

[Anonymous CowHardon]

Employing strongARM tactics? Better keep them at ARM's length. (Don't worry, these horrible puns are quite ARMless.)

Here's what I think would be funny...

[Anonymous Coward]

Mac users have had to endure 2 processor family changes and finally had to settle for the same one the PC uses. Could you imagine the irony if the PC switched to ARM and the Mac was left using the "outdated" x86 architecture?

Re:Here's what I think would be funny...

[CarpetShark]

Apple would probably be quite happy to start over on a new arch with Windows. Competing head-to-head on a new platform would be a big catch-up compared to their current position of limited drivers.

Re:Here's what I think would be funny...

[Anonymous Coward]

About the only difference is that OS X on the iPhone does not have AppKit or Autozone.

Great, where the hell am I gonna get auto parts then?

Re:Please stop with these

[bryonak]

"What if Count Chocula and the Cookie Monster teamed up kidnapped the Keibler Elves? What if monkey's flew out of Cowboy Neil's butt? What is Megan Fox showed up naked at my front door with Natalie Portman covered in grits?"

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Shit tons?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that a regular ton + the weight of the approximate animal that shit that much for a whole year?

So, the average 180lb man would excrete 1 shit ton or equivalent of 2 English pounds of solid waiste for 365 days to meet the expectancy of his shit ton?

I know a full-size mare would reach a man's shit ton every 2 months easily, so that would make a man about 1/6 mare shit ton, and if a man were to sire a creature to be half-horse then that offspring would be 1/3 mare shit ton.

I know I kinda eluded onto a metric that might differentiate from yours, so I'll wait for your enlightenment O-ring King.

Re:Shit tons?

[Gilmoure]

What's the conversion equation between shit-ton and metric butt-load?