I agree. And what I don't get is that the Core 2 Duo ULV processors kick the shit out of a similarly clocked ATOM at almost the same power usage!!! WTF?? Even the Core 2 Celeron ULV chips are faster. It looks to me like the ATOM will be near worthless for ANYTHING other than smartphones and so-called "MIDS". I don't think they'll even be able to compete for todays UMPCs and especially mini-notebooks like the EEPC.
And as far as smartphones go, No one is yet using ARM's latest. Their Cortex-A9 chips are dual-core, scale to over 1.0Ghz, and use hardly any more power than the current ARM11!!
I think everyone is overhyping the ATOM and it is going to have a tough time competing with new stuff from ARM, especially being the newcomer to the market. Also, with windows mobile, Symbian, Android, and OSX operating systems and development SDKs already having been ported to ARM, what good does x86 do in a small mobile device? Its not like you'd want to run windows XP on a smartphone... Both the OS and the UI on small devices has to be vastly modified anyways.
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I agree. And what I don't get is that the Core 2 Duo ULV processors kick the shit out of a similarly clocked ATOM at almost the same power usage!!! WTF?? Even the Core 2 Celeron ULV chips are faster.
It looks to me like the ATOM will be near worthless for ANYTHING other than smartphones and so-called "MIDS". I don't think they'll even be able to compete for todays UMPCs and especially mini-notebooks like the EEPC.
And as far as smartphones go, No one is yet using ARM's latest. Their Cortex-A9 chips are dual-core, scale to over 1.0Ghz, and use hardly any more power than the current ARM11!!
I think everyone is overhyping the ATOM and it is going to have a tough time competing with new stuff from ARM, especially being the newcomer to the market. Also, with windows mobile, Symbian, Android, and OSX operating systems and development SDKs already having been ported to ARM, what good does x86 do in a small mobile device? Its not like you'd want to run windows XP on a smartphone... Both the OS and the UI on small devices has to be vastly modified anyways.