East sees ARM chips showing up in everything from heating systems and lighting systems to medical devices.
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Or is it because iOS and Android run on ARM chips, not Intel?
In the last 12 years it has received royalties for over 40 billion Arm chips and the company's share price has risen threefold.
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However, that could be the sort of problem solved by another 6-9 months of development of the ARM chips that power the machines.
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The ARM chips are great for power management, this is true.
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Today, ARM chips account for close to 90% of the smartphone processor market and 10% of the mobile computing market (including tablets, netbooks and laptops).
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Microsoft is planning to release a version of Windows that runs on tablet computers and smartphones, and powered by ARM chips, signifying a move away from relations with Intel.
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As well as running Windows, Microsoft also showed the work it was doing to get applications such as Word, Powerpoint and Internet Explorer plus common tasks such as printing running on Arm chips.
Expect the market this year to segment itself between performance-minded tablets and smartphones powered by dual-core ARM chips based around the 1 GHz Cortex A9-MPCore, and less-expensive mass-market offerings running single-core versions of the A9.
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The new SDK can use H.264 hardware encoding to supplement the relatively slow ARM chips that will be running Linux in an embedded manner -- like the Panasonic TV, for instance, which was developed using an early version of SkypeKit.
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They would mostly run Android, sport single-core ARM chips, relatively-short battery life (think 4-5 hours), inferior touchscreens (stylus, anyone?), and often a poor selection of apps (subsets of the Google Android Market or, in the case of e-readers, none at all).
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So Intel is going to emulate software built for mobile devices using ARM-based chips.
During its demonstration, Microsoft showed Windows running on Arm-designed chips made by Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Nvidia.
There is also speculation that ARM-based chips could come to the Mac, but nothing has been confirmed yet.
Microsoft has a mobile version of Windows, known as Windows Phone 7, that already runs on Arm-designed chips.
Since ARM-based chips produce less heat Mr Gopalakrishnan said more could be placed on each "pizza-box-shaped" server rack unit.
Slowly but surely, Intel is gaining some traction in the mobile phone processor market now dominated by ARM-based chips.
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Most others using ARM-based chips are customizing different variants of the Linux operating system, said Steve Mollenkopf, president of Qualcomm's chip unit.
Over the past four quarters, the number of ARM-based chips inside smartphones have increased from 1.9 to 2.1 to 2.4 to 2.7.
The Cupertino-based company is actively looking for a partner to build the ARM-based chips used in iDevices (iPod touch, iPad and iPhone), and currently made in Samsung fabs.
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Bob Morris, ARM's director of mobile computing, says his company is tracking about 40 tablet-style devices being designed with ARM-based chips, plus about 10 more e-reader devices for electronic books.
In total, 2.6 billion ARM-based chips have made their way into the gadgets this quarter, an increase of 35 percent year-on-year, with embedded hardware up a hefty 50 percent since Q1 2012.
Strange but true, ARM is currently winning the microchip World Series: some 8bn ARM-designed chips will be sold this year, and are in everything from tablets, to smartphones to televisions and fridges.
However, on the Windows RT variant of the system - which will power cheaper tablets running on ARM-based chips - app publishers will only be able to sell their products through the Windows 8 store designed for the touchscreen interface, with all its associated restrictions.
Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.
Apple already does the detailed design of the chips with ARM providing the basics of the core.
For the quarter, ARM said 1.1 billion ARM processor-based chips were shipped for mobile devices and tablets, and another 800 million for consumer and embedded devices.
China Times reports that orders for TSMC's 28nm silicon are lined up to as far out as late Q3, courtesy of demand for ARM processors, baseband chips, graphics processors and x86 processors.
Chips embodying arm technology were used in 70% of all mobile phones sold in 1998. arm is a "chipless chipmaker, " in the words of its chairman and CEO, Robin Saxby, 52, who was appointed to run the company in February 1991.
Smartbooks are based on chips designed with ARM architecture, which also powers most smartphones (thus, the name).
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