Evan, Intel is not trying to add complexity to mobile programmer's lives, but just the opposite. The goal is to be able to leverage existing IA (Intel Architechture) but on the mobile platform. ARM has limited functionality, especially on the multimedia side of things. Being able to shrink the existing Core2Duo in both power and size (and combine it with north and southbridge functionality) would allow the HUGE amount of existing applications for x86 to be used in the UMPC market. Intel is trying to make things easier based on existing standards.
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Evan,
Intel is not trying to add complexity to mobile programmer's lives, but just the opposite. The goal is to be able to leverage existing IA (Intel Architechture) but on the mobile platform. ARM has limited functionality, especially on the multimedia side of things. Being able to shrink the existing Core2Duo in both power and size (and combine it with north and southbridge functionality) would allow the HUGE amount of existing applications for x86 to be used in the UMPC market. Intel is trying to make things easier based on existing standards.