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x86 hasn't really proven that it scales down well for mobile devices either.
by unlinked_dll 7y ago
x86 hasn't really proven that it scales down well for mobile devices either.
- toast0 7y agoThere are some x86 Android phones, and Windows 10 Mobile's Continuum looked designed to be run on an x86 phone, but Intel killed that line of processors before Microsoft built a device.
- wolfgke 7y agoIntel produced SoCs for mobile devices, concretely Speatrum SC9853i and Spreadtrum SC9861G-IA. If you want to scale even further down, consider Intel Quark (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark). For an analysis why it failed in the market, consider http://linuxgizmos.com/who-killed-the-quark/ http://linuxgizmos.com/who-killed-the-quark/ To me, it seems that the central reason why these chips failed commercially is that at the lower end, SoCs offer a much thinner margins than CPUs for laptops, desktop PCs and servers.
- vbezhenar 7y agoMy friend uses Asus Zenfone which runs on Intel CPU. It works fine. Intel might have failed with economics or marketing, but engineering works.
- saagarjha 7y agoInterestingly enough, the baseband for iPhone XS runs x86.