Comments on: TSMC deal offers glimpse of Intel future

The deal struck this week with TSMC will be a test of Intel's ability to compete in a crucial market outside of its home PC turf.

[slickuser]

x86 will make developers life easier. No more expensive debuggers required for
embedded system development. No more custom development platforms...

designers can use now build their components (add-on cards etc) using Atom based PCs.
This will make their R&D cheaper.

There are plenty of x86 debuggers, IDE and other developer tools available
for cheap/free at developers disposal.

[tasehagi]

"one of the burning questions is whether PC makers will begin running Microsoft's operating systems on ARM-based devices"

that's for Micro$oft to decide, not PC makers...

[pithenumber]

and given MS's is quite open to anyone running it on any hardware, MS will probably give it the green light. What would they lose?

[nanikore]

Microsoft operating systems ALREADY run on ARM-based devices... remember?

Windows CE
Windows Mobile

[pithenumber]

*cough*
he means a "full" pc version of Windows, like XP, 7 and Vista

[skrubol]

MS may make Windows Mobile or CE more like full Windows, but there's no way they're going to port Windows to Arm. Arm devices are not as powerful as desktop CPU's, so Windows Mobile/CE is a much better fit, plus there is tremendous cost to porting something like Windows. Not to mention there will be no apps to run on the new OS.