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>On the x86 not being designed for efficiency, Intel has a whole line of CPUs designed for low-power environments. At some point, there was even a Motorola phon
by snvzz 3y ago
>On the x86 not being designed for efficiency, Intel has a whole line of CPUs designed for low-power environments. At some point, there was even a Motorola phone running Android on x86.
Note it failed in the market, and was never competitive.
- rbanffy 3y agoIt failed on mobile phones. Atom and its descendants are in just about every cheap Windows tablet and small laptop, where being an x86 is advantageous.
- snvzz 3y agoWindows is (notably) not Android, and laptops/tablets do not run on the same power constraints a mobile phones does. Conversation went off the rails.