----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > > I've been pointed to a news item about a (apparently the first) x86 > (Atom) > based smartphone: > http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/orange-san-diego-review/ > > So even smartphones are going x86 now. It looks like x86 is going to > defeat > ARM just like it defeated all the previous attempts at changing the > instruction set, even Intel's own IA-64. The fastest x86 CPUs are > still > worlds faster than the fastest ARM CPUs. This new smartphone's > single-core > Atom is competitive in speed with other smartphones' multi-core ARMs. > > So I would urge Fedora not to waste our time on a low-end > architecture > filling a temporary niche which will become obsolete as demand for > performance increases. We should rather support only one primary > architecture (x86, i.e.: x86_64, and legacy i686 as long as there's a > need > for it) and support it well, as we have done since we finally got rid > of the > legacy PPC burden. Niche architectures are exactly what secondary > architectures are for. Intel promises mobile CPUs for several years and it's still a huge fail... My Intel based tablet has a fan (and it's not fun). I have to admit, I prefer x86 arch as it's easier to develop/work with but not in mobile world yet. R. > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
