> Would there be any advantage in making a desktop computer that ran on the ARM architecture (instead of x86)? The MIPS people said that they had to have 10x o

> Would there be any advantage in making a desktop computer that ran on the ARM architecture (instead of x86)? The MIPS people said that they had to have 10x on some dimension and as good as on all other dimensions just to get folks to consider switching ISAs. Where's your 10x? (Note that Intel is already planning to play the "many cores" game.) Note that CPUs aren't the only thing that use power in a computer.