Linux kernel, ARM architecture, should play reasonably nice with smartphones and tablets built for Android.
Smartbooks are based on chips designed with ARM architecture, which also powers most smartphones (thus, the name).
Haswell is expected to come close to the ARM architecture by ARM Holdings used by Apple iPads.
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The product goal: servers based on ARM architecture cores, which will enable machines that are both dense and extremely low power.
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Thanks to Samsung, they made the leap to the ARM architecture, enabling longer battery life in a thin form factor.
With Nvidia entering the PC processor business with its ARM architecture, the software support it receives from Microsoft could be a negative for Intel.
Games may be a problem, as high-end gaming is most likely to exploit ARM architecture hardware extensions, and as such not perform as expected on x86 processors.
The new version of Windows will work with processors based on the ARM architecture from Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments, in addition to x86 processors from Intel and AMD.
"ARM and our partners have a long history of working with, and supporting, open source software development for complex SoCs based on the ARM architecture, " said Warren East, ARM CEO.
Bloomberg's sources suggest that Cupertino is actively working on a version of its tweaked ARM architecture that would run inside Mac PC, in particular its laptop products could stand to benefit from its battery sipping design.
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Its enclosure resembles the silver metallic enclosure of a MacBook Pro, but inside, it has the ARM processor architecture and operating system of the iPhone.
Dell's ability to provide end-to-end technology solutions using ARM processor architecture and the WindowsRT operating system means businesses can be assured that they will be able to manage and secure the XPS 10 on their networks.
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The company had thus far been unwilling to build chips based on the rival ARM processor architecture which dominates the mobile space, and insists that its x86 architecture will soon be on par in terms of power efficiency.
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Both ARM and Intel architecture will be Windows 8 compatible and we feel that the backward compatibility of Intel processor with older versions might not suffice as a significant differentiating factor.
As a result, Intel is losing out to chipmakers using architecture from ARM Holdings for processors that appear in tablets and phones.
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He also points out that AMD knows the server market well, and in theory could partner with ARM to drive that architecture into high-performance applications.
They all license their architecture from British firm ARM, which Nvidia cut a deal with in 2005 for its Tegra mobile processors.
Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, and even ARM Holdings (which developed the architecture used by Apple in its iPhones and iPads), are a step ahead of Intel and its Atom microprocessor.
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Second, ARM is also focusing its power efficient architecture on the server market.
The ARM Compiler and ARM Fast Models have supported the ARMv8 architecture since it was announced in October 2011, and are used extensively by public launch licensees of the Cortex-A50 processor series.
Luminary bases all of its chips on a common blueprint from ARM Holdings, a Cambridge, England designer of digital architecture.
Unfortunately ARM doesn't yet offer a "multithread" architecture that allows for rapid multitasking.
He explained that the software remains as close as possible to what's available on the 600 and 800, but the hardware is scaled down to support lower-resolution displays and cameras by using ARM cores instead of the company's own Krait architecture.
The X86 architecture performance is better than other available market products while ARM is known for its power conservation.
Not that the executive is about to accept Intel's position that ARM isn't meant for performance, as he saw the architecture scaling to high speeds whenever there was a large enough power supply to back it up.
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In some cases the technologies sit side by side in devices - Apple's iPhone 5, for example, features a PowerVR GPU based on Imagination's architecture, and Apple's A6 CPU which is based on ARM's work.
Some of Luminary's rivals sell microcontrollers with ARM design tools, but all of them also sell products with their own proprietary architecture.
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The move will bring the x86 processor architecture that dominates the PC and server business into direct competition with the ARM-based designs that now dominate the smart phone and tablet industry.
One concerned the formation of the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, initial founders of which include AMD, ARM Holdings, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments (TI).
He means that arm doesn't risk a lot of capital to fabricate chips, preferring instead to license its microprocessor architecture to 35 semiconductor partners.
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