ARM claims that Intel is doomed because it cannot take advantage of the mobile market.
Co-founder of ARM, Hermann Hauser, told the Wall Street Journal over the weekend that while Intel still has the PC market sewn up, it was not dong well enough in the mobile market.
Hauser claims that while Intel's business model works in the PC space, it will never work in the handset market.
He said that ARM is going to kill the Intel microprocessor because the chip giant has the wrong business model.
People in the mobile phone architecture do not buy microprocessors. So if you sell microprocessors you have the wrong model, Hauser said.
Intel is used to competing with a company like AMD, but in a business where people licence chip making, Intel is having to compete with every semiconductor company in the world.
Hauser said that initially the history of computing was first dominated by the IBM mainframe, then came the mini computer dominated by DEC, then came the third wave with workstations dominated by Sun and Apollo, then the PC.
"Now it's the mobile architecture that is going to be the main computing platform at least on the terminal side," he said.
However, there is no case in the history of computing where a company that has dominated one wave has dominated the next wave and there is no case where a new wave did not kill the previous wave, he pointed out.
The people that dominate the PC market are Intel and Microsoft, so they must be toast said Hauser.
Looks like XP is immortal! We thought that the XP would finally meet its fate on Oct 22. After netbooks, it is now turn for the phones to get equipped with XP.
Meet the phone powered by AMD Super Mobile CPU. It has GSM, GPRS, EDGE and 3G too. For storage, you can get upto 64GB of SSD storage which would certainly make the current iPhone 3GS owners a bit angry. You can get 1GB RAM (512MB version is available)
Compared to the fruit-phone, it has bigger display (4.8-inch) which means that it can easily be used as a MID. You get built-in WiFi and WiMax too. GPS is there too so that you don’t get lost.
Commentary: ARM Cortex, the CPU that is being used in iPhone and iPod Touch is, as its name implies, ARM based. Naturally, it is not x86 and thus cannot run Windows OS. However, AMD Super Mobile CPU is fully x86 compatible and runs Windows XP OS without a hitch!
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/itg%E2%80%99s_fabled_xpphone_sale_now
Having tried windows XP like 'desktop oriented' operating systems on small screen form factors, microsoft themselves came to the conclusion that it simply is not what the consumer wants.
Hence windows phone 7.
Now with some major gui enhancement and rethinking, it is just possible that windows 7 might be bendable into something useful for smaller form factors. No guarantees.
However, none of that work has been completed yet. Nobody is going to invest time in Windows XP, and you yourself are now embargoed from downgrading a Windows 7 netbook to what might be 'your favourite' netbook OS.
I say about windows 7 and 'might be bendable into something useful for smaller form factors.', it all depends on the market. Redmond could invest millions trying to bend windows 7 into something a consumer likes on a small form factor.
However the market just might have already decided that android does a good enough job and gone there already.
I'll quote from the original article at maximumpc.com which you have linked to
"I’m not sure I really want Windows XP on my phone, or DOS for that matter"
I suspect the writer is not the only one to be wary of shelling out $800 for device running an operating system that even the parents are trying to kill off.
How many decades now has pot continued to call the kettle black? Yet both are cooking with gas.
Every pundit seems to confuse an interface with a chipset or software.
Woe unto them who make scratch in the sand as though they righteth in stone.
Let them who is without FAB cast their own first silicone.
A time to build up,
a time to break down
A time to cast away stones,
a time to gather stones together