Comments on: Counting the chips in mobile computers

Intel and ARM come from different starting places, but both face the tricky challenge of balancing performance, battery life, and compelling design.

[BALTHOR1]

Your phone is digital

The same stuff that is in your microwave oven and garage door opener.The exe gets magnetically recorded into the memory chip.The memory chip is just like your flash drive memory stick.When you turn on the device the exe starts and the program runs.I can envision a cell phone totally without transistors.

[fred dunn]

Intel and ARM should take lessons from VIA

VIA does not have a strong command of the CPU market but theirs is a niche market that they perform VERY well at, Low Power Processors.

In this space if I were integrating an x86 CPU in a very power sensitive device I would go to VIA.

At this time neither Intel or ARM can touch the capability, performance, and low power needs of a VIA C7.

[b_rieux]

don't count out Japanese and Korean chipmakers

I'm still not so sure that the Mobile PC or Iphone lines of development are the mobile future.