Post Tagged with: "ARM"

Intel Could Use a Dose of Andy Grove
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Intel Could Use a Dose of Andy Grove

In a presentation to financial analysts on May 10, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said he was not particularly worried about the prospect of Microsoft issuing a version of Windows for ARM processors later this year. “We think [x86 is] a differentiator,” he said. “We have the advantage of the incumbency, the legacy support.” Maybe he’s right. [...]

Published by on May 11, 2012 8:49 am
Windows 8 on ARM: The Big Questions
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Windows 8 on ARM: The Big Questions

Microsoft released a lengthy blog post yesterday on their website specifically around Windows 8 on ARM. Although the post shed some insight into a number of the looming questions we all have about Windows on ARM, there are still a few things I am concerned about. Windows 8 on ARM has the potential to be [...]

Published by on February 10, 2012 10:20 am
Windows on ARM to Include Desktop Office. But What About Outlook?
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Windows on ARM to Include Desktop Office. But What About Outlook?

While Microsoft has said a lot of Windows 8, it has revealed very little about its almost equally important software partner, Office 15. In in a post on the Building Windows 8 blog today, Windows boss Steve Sinofsky disclosed a vital bit of information about Windows on ARM (WOA), the version that will run on [...]

Published by on February 9, 2012 11:09 am
The ARM Wrestle Match
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The ARM Wrestle Match

I have an un-healthy fascination with semiconductors. I am not an engineer nor I do know much about quantum physics but I still love semiconductors. Perhaps because I started my career drawing chip diagrams at Cypress Semiconductor. I genuinely enjoy digging into architecture differences and exploring how different semiconductor companies look to innovate and tackle [...]

Published by on January 6, 2012 7:56 am
Windows 8 Desktop on ARM Decision Driven by Phones and Consoles
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Windows 8 Desktop on ARM Decision Driven by Phones and Consoles

There has been a lot written about the possibility of Microsoft not supporting the Windows 8 Desktop environment on the ARM architecture. If true, this could impact Microsoft, ARM and ARM’s licensees and Texas Instruments, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm are in the best position to challenge the high end of the ARM stack and are publicly [...]

Published by on December 6, 2011 8:05 am
Windows and ARM: A Fork in the Road
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Windows and ARM: A Fork in the Road

ZDnet reports  that Microsoft has tentatively decided that Windows 8 running on ARM processors will only support new Metro-style applications, not programs written for older versions of Windows and Intel processors. In one sense, this is not surprising. Existing applications would have to be recompiled to run at all on ARM systems and would probably [...]

Published by on December 2, 2011 5:57 am
Quad Core Smartphones: What it Will Take to Become Relevant
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Quad Core Smartphones: What it Will Take to Become Relevant

There has been a lot of industry discussion on multi-core smartphones in the past year, and the dialog has increased with NVIDIA’s launch of Tegra 3, a quad core SOC targeted to phones and tablets. The big question lingering with all of these implementations particularly with phones is, what will end users do with all [...]

Published by on November 11, 2011 4:00 am