CES's biggest fallout --- Say good-bye to Wintel

The Wintel alliance that has dominated the PC space for so long, may be destined to end. Microsoft has announced in the last CES that they'll have the next Windows version on ARM platform also. Will it mean ARM will muscle into PC space! Maybe. But, as Jobs says this is the post PC era. May be they'll turn up on the tablets. The predominant OS Android is platform agnostic. Besides, all sorts of innovations seem to be coming to the tablet space! May be MS want to get there!

Windows 7 has not exactly been a hit in the smartphone segment. Whereas Arm is doing great in it. Can MS ride coattails of ARM there!


CES's biggest fallout --- Say good-bye to Wintel

MIPS Aims to Break into Smartphone Space

Mobile handset space has been dominated by ARM based processors for a long time and by a long shot. However Intel and MIPS has been trying to get into this ever expanding space for a time now. News coming out of this year's CES show says they are both serious about it. Smartphone is the most lucrative segment of the handset market and you need a powerful processor to handle the tasks demanded of a smartphone.

MIPS announcements at the CES-2011 brings out features of the newer MIPS processors that make them suitable for this space easily. One of the major handicap used to be the availability of one of the popular OS being available in MIPS machine code version. However, with Android that problem vanishes, as the Dalvik JVM makes it all the same whether the Android runs on an ARM based machine or a MIPS platform. They also seem to have processors that deliver more power in same physical form factor yet consume smaller amount of electric power. 3 MIPAS core can be fitted into the space and power consumption taken up by 2 of the ARM cores that delivers 80% more processing power! That should be an incentive for many vendors to look at it as an alternative!

MIPS Aims to Break ARMs With New Smartphone Platform