Could ARM CPUs become the dominant processors in the Intel-dominated netbook world soon? Robert Castellano, president of The Information Network, thinks so.
Castellano, who heads the market research and consulting firm, predicts that ARM-based processors will take market share from Intel’s Atom processors by 2012, with a 55% share.
He said that Atom will hole an 80% [...]
February 17, 2009 – 5:47 pm
ARM’s Sparrow multicore netbook processor will go on show for the first time this week at Mobile World Congress ‘09, according to Engadget.
The Sparrow is a Cortex A9 processor aimed at netbook makers and is a multi-core update to the Cortex A8. Speculation has it that the Sparrow could be the processor of choice for [...]
December 18, 2008 – 3:26 pm
Netbooks fueled by anything other than the all-conquering Intel Atom processor are certainly worth talking about, and the DigiTimes is reporting that China-based whitebox netbook makers are planning to launch a series of low cost netbooks using the ARM processor.
Local Chinese media reports say that a 7-inch device is expected to sell for less than [...]
November 18, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Network World has news that the alliance between chip maker ARM and Canonical, reported here last Thursday, is a “go”. ARM has officially announced its partnership with Canonical, commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, the open source Linux-based operating system software. This deal will lead to the production and implementation of an operating system for netbooks that [...]
November 13, 2008 – 2:39 pm
As if Intel didn’t already have enough to worry about with AMD’s expected announcement of the Bobcat tomorrow, another potential competitor has emerged. Laptop Magazine has a new story that ARM, a manufacturer of low-power consumption processors (the things found in smart phones and personal media players), has announced that it plans a full scale [...]
