ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up

An anonymous reader writes "Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings is stepping up rhetoric against chip rival Intel, saying it expects to take more of Intel's market share than Intel can take from them. With Intel being the No. 1 supplier of notebook PC processors, and ARM technology almost ubiquitously powering smartphones, the two companies are facing off as they both push into the other's market space. 'It's going to be quite hard for Intel to be much more than just one of several players,' ARMs CEO said of Intel."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Low-power processor maker ARM Holdings

ARM Holdings do not "make" processors, low powered or otherwise. They design, they develop, and they certainly license. But they don't make.

Interestingly from a Slashdot point of view they're probably the most high profile example of an "IP" company with a positive image.

Re:Where are the products ARM?

[Anonymous Coward]

Good smartphone CPUs have on the order of 20mW standby power draw. Factor of 500.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5365/intels-medfield-atom-z2460-arrive-for-smartphones

Re:Where are the products ARM?

[itsdapead]

This is not some old ancient niche that ARM has wrapped up -- these products and markets only appeared within the past 5 years or so.

5 years or so? Not if you count the Apple Newton (1993), the Psion Series 5 (1997) the HP iPaq (2000) and (I think) the Sharp Zaurus (late 90s-mid 00s) - although I think the last 2 actually used Intel's StrongArm or XScale ARM chips. There are also things that never made it but helped set the stage for ARM's share of the mobile and embedded markets.

So yes, smartphones and tablets have boomed in the last 5 years, after Apple came up with a winning formula and everybody else jumped on the bandwagon, but the ideas have been bubbling under for years, and ARM got its feet under the table 20 years ago.