By 2010 a comparable performance ARM will be 1/5th the power consumption and 1/10th the price of Intel's FrankenAtom.
Already you can get a module that has size and footprint of a single chip, with Flash & RAM chips as two extra chips sandwidched in package. CPU then doen't need RAM /Flash bus on bottom BGA.
Intel may get power consumption down a notch with 32nm, but they'll only have a few months head start before ARM licences are using the same process, then the x86 chips will compare just as badly as against today's highly integrated ARM SoCs.
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Comments on: Intel's 32nm Atom roadmapped
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By xjy Posted Monday 8th December 2008 11:49 GMT
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By Mage Posted Monday 8th December 2008 14:54 GMT
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By druck Posted Monday 8th December 2008 15:44 GMT