Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.

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Eventually, he found his target: a square sliver of black plastic called a baseband processor, the chip that limited the carriers with which it could work.

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Intel, for instance, is making a fresh push into the mobile device processor market, though so far the company has made only limited progress.

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Bloomberg reports that the phone is unlikely to carry the Samsung Octa-core processor in the US, and eye-scroll will be very limited in functionality, if indeed it appears.

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