Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 9, 2014 @08:02AM from the go-small-or-go-home dept.

szczys writes: Intel is upping their bid for a place at the efficient-yet-powerful device table. They've launched their Edison board, which features an x86 based SoC running at 100 MHz. The footprint measures 35.5mm x 25.0mm and offers a 70-pin connector to break out 40 pins for add-on hardware. Also at the Intel Developer Forum today, the company demonstrated a PC running on Skylake, a new CPU microarchitecture based on the 14nm process used for Broadwell. Intel is pushing to break into both wearable devices and household devices, as it sees both as huge opportunities for growth.

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The ARM world is failing by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-09 08:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If there won't soon be an architectural agreement that allows OS distributions to be installed on arbitrary ARM devices, boot loader and all, then Intel will crush the ARM world and relegate it to a short blip in computing history. Every single model of phone, tablet, media player and whatever else runs Android needs a software development team to adapt the OS to the device. That's an untenable situation and will lead to ARM's downfall.