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x86 compatability
April 24, 2007 by Anonymous (not verified), 2 years 28 weeks ago
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Asserting that "the x86 processor still reigns supreme" shows a very narrow view of computing. There are twice as many mobile phone users as Internet users; very few of these phones run x86 processors. If you look at the number of deployed processors, x86 is a long way behind ARM. In 2004, there were 3/4 billion ARM processors shipped, x86 has only recently reached 100 million. In many fields, x86 is as irrelevant as it always has been.