Unlike Windows, which has been tied to Intel's processor architecture, Google's Android operating system is processor agnostic.
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.
Mobile security must start with a hardware-backed model, designed-in from the start in processor architecture, which secures information and processes right to the core of the phone or tablet.
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.
On Tuesday, MIPS announced it will show off a pair of smart phones and tablets based on its processor architecture based on systems-on-chips from MIPS licensees Actions Semiconductor and Ingenic Semiconductor.
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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That version would be Windows Phone 7.8, and would bring some of the major features of the new OS to the older hardware, although the really interesting stuff that needed a faster processor (and different architecture) would be left for the newer handsets.
With Nvidia entering the PC processor business with its ARM architecture, the software support it receives from Microsoft could be a negative for Intel.
Apparently, unlike the massive shift from the PS2 to PS3, the eventually PS4 will be a decidedly smaller leap, with it relying on a slightly speedier (and, likely, 45nm) Cell processor but not a completely new architecture.
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In 2006 Intel sold its nascent xscale smartphone processor business to Marvell, after Intel's engineers decided they could eventually shrink the Intel architecture powering the world's PCs into a handheld processor.
For hardware, HP engineered flexible standards-based interfaces into their server cartridge architecture so that nearly any kind of accelerator or processor developer can make a cartridge.
Things like the number of computer instructions per clock cycle, the bandwidth of the RAM bus, and the overall efficiency of the architecture are at least as important as the raw clock speed at which a processor runs.
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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.
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