..of getting way better than ARM and competing products.
It really seems that no one among competitors management has noticed but Intel it's not the same it was during the P4 Prescott (and failed Tejas) power hungry core era. Since the team behind Centrino got full Intel resources and focus inside the Corporation, everything changed. x86 Intel products are the best ones on the market and 2008 seems to be full of improved products able to deliver way higher performance with way less Watts.
So I really think that Intel might have done a smart thing selling its XScale ARM division and starting from scratch with a new ultra low power set of x86 products. We will see if the team behind Centrino technology has been able to design a better architecture than what XScale was already capable of.
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Centrino technology has a very good chance...
..of getting way better than ARM and competing products.
It really seems that no one among competitors management has noticed but Intel it's not the same it was during the P4 Prescott (and failed Tejas) power hungry core era. Since the team behind Centrino got full Intel resources and focus inside the Corporation, everything changed. x86 Intel products are the best ones on the market and 2008 seems to be full of improved products able to deliver way higher performance with way less Watts.
So I really think that Intel might have done a smart thing selling its XScale ARM division and starting from scratch with a new ultra low power set of x86 products. We will see if the team behind Centrino technology has been able to design a better architecture than what XScale was already capable of.