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The cost of developing an ARM core would need to be paid for solely by sales of ARM chips. By sharing x86 and graphics cores with all their other chips, that R
by mrpippy 12y ago
The cost of developing an ARM core would need to be paid for solely by sales of ARM chips.
By sharing x86 and graphics cores with all their other chips, that R&D is amortized across everything (and the financials for the Mobile division don't look nearly as bad)
- timthorn 12y agoCores are designed to hit a particular performance and power envelope. Even if implementing the same instruction set, cores will be very different for low power sensor platforms compared to tablets and to servers.