Today, ARM and TSMC have announced that wants to work closely together in the future to guarantee high performance at low power consumption. The latter is the main area of use of mobile devices is far more important than the last ounce of performance.
So you could improve in the future, the decisive factors of a micro-chip, namely size, power and energy on. Especially with the new 40nm process will be ARM cores smaller and more efficient, which is also good customers. The new agreements, the possibility for TSMC, ARM cores, including for other clients using the ARM instructions to implement as best as possible. Here it required a license agreement so far on both sides, the paver and ARM for themselves what the development of the ARM architecture slowed.
With this license, it would be possible to provide the Atom processors in the NetBook to finally stand up to the field, not only with design proposals or paper tigers. In advance how far this development the free Linux operating system is not yet clear, except that the installation of Windows is not possible without problems, due to the lack of x86 architecture. Otherwise, how could Google's Android operating system, or get Windows CE / Windows Mobile is used, the latter is because of licensing costs and the functional design as unlikely.
So you could improve in the future, the decisive factors of a micro-chip, namely size, power and energy on. Especially with the new 40nm process will be ARM cores smaller and more efficient, which is also good customers. The new agreements, the possibility for TSMC, ARM cores, including for other clients using the ARM instructions to implement as best as possible. Here it required a license agreement so far on both sides, the paver and ARM for themselves what the development of the ARM architecture slowed.
With this license, it would be possible to provide the Atom processors in the NetBook to finally stand up to the field, not only with design proposals or paper tigers. In advance how far this development the free Linux operating system is not yet clear, except that the installation of Windows is not possible without problems, due to the lack of x86 architecture. Otherwise, how could Google's Android operating system, or get Windows CE / Windows Mobile is used, the latter is because of licensing costs and the functional design as unlikely.