The ARM processor architecture has taken great strides on the home electronics market lately. Through the development of more powerful architectures like Cortex A8 and the coming Cortex A9, ARM grown to become an architecture worth acknowledging, much thanks to our new smart and superphones. Even if ARM isn’t competing directly with Intel and x86, the most commonly found brand names among CPUs, it may just be a matter of time before they do.
With Intel’s omnipresence and resources you would think that ARM would be a bit nervous before clashing with the semiconductor giant. That doesn’t seem to be the case through as the company VP Warren East says that Intel doesn’t have that many advantages today.
He points out that Intel is far behind on the smartphone market and that instead it’s ARM that is starting to move in on Intel territory with larger mobile devices like smartbooks, e-book readers and tablets.
Intel VP Paul Otellini holds up a Moorestown-based smartphone from LG during CES Las Vegas 2010
In an interview with Yahoo.com Warren replied to a question regarding Intel’s first display of a Moorestown-based smartphone;
We don’t really see Intel making meaningful inroads into it, not for many years, probably never. In order [for device makers] to switch architectures, the Intel product has to be significantly better to outweigh the cost of switching. We do see in a few years time Intel getting closer to parity with Arm. But that’s a few years out yet before they even get closer to parity.
According to ARM Intel will not be able to climb into the smartphone market and steal shares. We’re still eager to see the two processor architectures (x86 vs. ARM) compete against each other, if not now then at least in the future.
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