I wonder if the mobile chips are a good excuse to introduce the public to a new architecture. You start selling a phone with the new architecture where it's low risk and the software isn't entrenched. Then, scale it up for different devices until at some point you introduce it to desktops? It looks like this is what Apple is starting to do with the Cortex chips.
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I wonder if the mobile chips are a good excuse to introduce the public to a new architecture. You start selling a phone with the new architecture where it's low risk and the software isn't entrenched. Then, scale it up for different devices until at some point you introduce it to desktops? It looks like this is what Apple is starting to do with the Cortex chips.