Qualcomm wants a piece of the PC market

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Qualcomm wants a piece of the PC market

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Slashdot wrote:Much of Intel's story of the past few years has involved its so far fruitless attempts to break into the smartphone and tablet market. But as it keeps trying, it may find competition on its home turf: Qualcomm, which makes many of the ARM-based chips in those smartphones and tablets, wants to make PCs, too. The advent of Windows 8 for ARM and Android will make this possible.
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Obviously, this wouldn't be relevant to us performance users, but in the lower end of the market, things could well be in for a rather large shake-up...
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What will you get if you take two duel core 1.2GHz ARM's and ramp up speed to around 4GHz?
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A meltdown?
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With proper cooling of course. :)
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KALSTER wrote:With proper cooling of course. :)
jamin_za wrote:A meltdown?
But not so much of the CPU itself but rather your electrical bill and eventually Koeberg.
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