ARM Expects to Power Half of all Tablet PCs in 2011
ARM Expects to Power Half of all Tablet PCs in 2011
Posted 05/20/2010 at 11:20am
| by Paul Lilly
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Intel's Atom architecture has pretty much become ubiquitous with netbooks, and with tablets shaping up to be the next biggest fad in mobile computing, you can bet the Santa Clara chip maker will look to duplicate its success. Standing in Intel's way, however, is ARM.
ARM has no intention of letting Intel dominate the tablet PC sector the way it has netbooks, and according to Bob Morris, ARM's director of Mobile Computing, ARM processors will wiggle their way into 50 percent of global tablet PCs by 2011.
That works out to a lot of tablets. By Morris' estimation, global tablet PC shipments will total 4 million units by the end of 2010, and then balloon to 21 million units in 2011. Morris also said that Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Sharp have already adopted ARM-based processors for their smartbooks and tablets.
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B10H4Z4RD
May 20, 2010 at 12:24pm
as much as i would love to see an alternate to atom proccesors [in a love/hate relationship with intel] what i'm hoping is that ARM will deliver a bit more punch. Or at least a more 'deep' preformance/batterylife balance [slowing clock speeds etc]
come on ARM, suprise me!
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