Grant <emailgrant <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long.
> >> For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing> else, so x86 is going to have to fight for it's survival > And won't the manufacturers be more inclined to use a processor they can manufacture themselves under license than buy one from Intel or AMD? BINGO! Arm can be built via most any process or on top of a FPGA. Arm Ltd licenses the processors for CHEAP! Arm is the KING in the lowest heat produced per MIP/MOP/whatever, except for a select few DSPs on certain solutions. You can mix or match SIMD, MIMD or any other type of processor onto the substrate of your choice and ARM LTD does not care. Try that with TI, Intel, Freescale, Microchip, AMD or any other big silicon processor design owners. All sorts of Linux (embedded through distros) run on a wide variety of Arm platforms. The biggest embedded OS vendor (Wind River) is doing about 95% of their business on embedded Linux. Arm is KING in the embedded world. AMD has annouced their building next gen products on Arm with their AMD buss technologies. Arm is WAY FAR MORE FLEXIBLE than any other processor out their. Will x86 Die? No, but the game is ARM. (Period) Over. EVERYBODY is doing ARM. INTEL is a bunch of assholes in the the embedded world. Been there (i960) done that and left Intel decades ago as have most innovators. Companies such as TI (OMAP-5) are busy rolling out Arm15 products. The will not even sell the latest (hotest) Arm chips to anyone, because they are building a myriad of new products, direct to consumer and companies...... (oh yea remember TI has a variety of chips, processors, DSP, video and other technologies and ARM hybrids at TI (Omap-5) are the hotest new areas inside of TI. TI is not alone in the ARM conquest..... I could go on for millions of pages of dead wreakage in the ARM wake, but that's pointless, it pretty much understood. You gonna put an Intel chip into robotics that go to Mars? Don't think so..... I look for Microsoft to purchase AMD and build their own boxes, like Apple. Microsoft is the biggest looser in this ARM take all world................... Folks will survive, but the future is now and it is ARM. Crap you can run Ubuntu on ARM now: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM ;-)
