(05/01/2011 11:42 PM)Sparker Wrote:  4 threads by Ge64 today T_T

I always used to post lots of threads

Interesting that there were quite a bit of rumours before of nVidia possibly going into the x86 business after it was hiring all these x86 architects.

ARM is licensed to many different companies, so nVidia won't be the only one making them.

Windows running on ARM certainly would push its popularity, but without compatibility with exisiting x86 apps (unless an emulator is developed) is going to be a problem; here, Linux and its environment would have a clear advantage.

As for performance, although x86 is somewhat old and with hacky workarounds, most of the performance problems with the architecture have been worked around with current desktop processors.  I'm somewhat doubting that a huge gain in performance can really be achieved with ARM, but I could be wrong.  ARM primarily excels with efficiency - ie less power draw for a certain amount of computing power.
Also, I'm unsure whether ARM carries the same instruction set for newer models - something that's somewhat important in Wintel's success.
Which leads me to believe that an x86 emulator on ARM wouldn't be terribly efficient...

This probably has more use in the workstation/server environment, so perhaps a Windows Server version which runs on ARM.
Is Itanium still widely used?  Maybe this is aimed at replacing or competing in that field.