ARM processors to take 90% of the PC market

ARM CEO, Warren East, is aiming very high it seem for his range of processor technology. He is predicting that 90% of netbooks, which will be the majority of the PC market according to him, will be powered by ARM processors. He may be right about this aswell with the Tegra2 platform looking very promising aswell as its competitor OMAP4 from TI. With Intel and AMD just not able to compete in power efficiency at the moment, it certainly looks like ARM has the advantage as now they have become very able platforms with the ability to playback HD video smoothly. The only disadvantage ARM is facing is the lack of support for Windows. Many users still want to have a Windows user experience as that is what they have become used to and expect on PC's or netbooks. However Microsoft seems to be very reluctant to offer support for the ARM platform which is leaving the gate wide open for Linux based OS's but will users adapt to Linux is another question. Linux has the opportunity to have a head start. Lets hope they make the most of it. 

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OMAP4 teased just before MWC

The guys over at SlashGear managed to get some hands on time with Texas Instruments latest and greatest processor line due to compete against Snapdragon and Tegra2 in the near future. As we already know, OMAP3 processors are already pretty beastly driving devices like the Motorola Droid. However OMAP4 chipsets can do more than drive one measely smartphone. They have the power to drive no less than three independant displays, one being a pico projector, with each having the ability to be showing different content at the same time. OMAP4 chipsets come loaded with an dual core A9 arm core at its heart with TI specific customizations. Other important things to take note about this chipset is its ability to play and encode 1080p HD video at 30fps aswell as output it via HDMI to a TV while using the two other displays to view other content at the same time. This shows the pure processor power available. So how will this compare to Nvidia's offering you may be wondering. Well TI claim that OMAP4 has “a better video engine than [NVIDIA] do” aswell as more more bandwidth resulting in better multi-tasking capabilities. Most importantly OMAP4 is designed to be a smartphone platform which Tegra2 has still yet expand to. The real showdown will start at MWC.


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