ARM Attacks Intel's Netbook Stranglehold

Barence writes "British chip designer ARM is launching an outright attack on Intel with the launch of a 2GHz processor aimed at everything from netbooks to servers. ARM claims the 40nm Cortex A9 MPCore processor represents a shift in strategy for the company, which has until now concentrated on low-power processors for mobile devices. In the consumer market, ARM is pitching the Cortex A9 directly against Intel's Atom, claiming the processor offers five times the power while drawing comparable amounts of energy. 'It's head and shoulders above anything Intel can deliver today,' ARM VP of marketing Eric Schom claims. However, it has one major hurdle to overcome: it doesn't support Windows. 'We've had conversations with Microsoft and you can imagine what they entail,' says Schom."

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Re:What does it support?

[Bigjeff5]

Some are even better than Windows! *gasp*

I didn't know Apple had an OSX that worked with ARM, I thought they pretty much stuck to their own hardware, and it's x86?

Oh wait, you mean Linux. Right it's "better" in all the ways a masochist would love. Does wanting to push that on everybody else make you a mass-sadist?

Hmmm... possibly, possibly.