I agree on the phone side. How many of those millions of apps are usable from a phone screen, using a phone interface? This sounds like cool technology, but this particular use case sounds very limited use on phones.
However, on the tablet side, it may allow Microsoft to bring down the price of the Surface a bit while still maintaining legacy app compatibility.
My understanding is that Intel caught up with ARM a couple years ago on performance-per-Watt, but how's the idle power consumption of 64-bit Atom processors these days compared to 64-bit ARM offerings? For many consumer use cases, idle power consumption has a bigger impact on battery life than does performance-per-Watt.
I'm a bit sad this news came out after SoftBank bought up my ARM shares, but I'm glad to see more evidence we may yet get the x86 monkey off our back.
However, on the tablet side, it may allow Microsoft to bring down the price of the Surface a bit while still maintaining legacy app compatibility.
My understanding is that Intel caught up with ARM a couple years ago on performance-per-Watt, but how's the idle power consumption of 64-bit Atom processors these days compared to 64-bit ARM offerings? For many consumer use cases, idle power consumption has a bigger impact on battery life than does performance-per-Watt.
I'm a bit sad this news came out after SoftBank bought up my ARM shares, but I'm glad to see more evidence we may yet get the x86 monkey off our back.