Hi All
We are all aware of the 2 major developments for the computing market (smartphones,PC,tablets) - Windows 8 on ARM and Android on x86. Well, this is not a surprise actually, as it was bound to happen sometime sooner or later - but what I see is great competition in the next few years for both the default OS and the default architecture.
From the current perspective : ARM and Android are dominating the smartphone/tablet segment while x86/Windows rules the PC/Laptop market.
ARM
is RISC -> simpler design -> smaller
allows chips with very low power consumption
is scaling up to multi cores (quad cores with Tegra 3)
has compiler support
has mobile application support (mostly JRE based )
x86
is CISC -> complex
comparitively very high power consumption
already dominant multi-cores
has very good compiler support
has very good native application support
Windows and Android are both potent operating systems, but given Windows has a much-longer history and is going from something complex to simpler , might have an upper hand. Also given Android's legal troubles, phone-makers may show love to the Windows camp.
So, which according to you, is a bigger change, and will have a changing effect on the market in the years to come ?
We are all aware of the 2 major developments for the computing market (smartphones,PC,tablets) - Windows 8 on ARM and Android on x86. Well, this is not a surprise actually, as it was bound to happen sometime sooner or later - but what I see is great competition in the next few years for both the default OS and the default architecture.
From the current perspective : ARM and Android are dominating the smartphone/tablet segment while x86/Windows rules the PC/Laptop market.
ARM
is RISC -> simpler design -> smaller
allows chips with very low power consumption
is scaling up to multi cores (quad cores with Tegra 3)
has compiler support
has mobile application support (mostly JRE based )
x86
is CISC -> complex
comparitively very high power consumption
already dominant multi-cores
has very good compiler support
has very good native application support
Windows and Android are both potent operating systems, but given Windows has a much-longer history and is going from something complex to simpler , might have an upper hand. Also given Android's legal troubles, phone-makers may show love to the Windows camp.
So, which according to you, is a bigger change, and will have a changing effect on the market in the years to come ?