We’ve already heard rumors that chip designer ARM have been attempting to get its wares into the Macbook Air. While we won’t add anything to that distinctive story, we do have further evidence that ARM goes beyond smartphones and tablets so that it will target bigger form factors. The company’s president, Tudor Brown, has just appeared at Computex to declare that ARM desires to conquer the “mobile PC market”, where the corporate currently only has a ten per cent share. He’s aiming for 15 per cent by the top of this year, and an Intel-provoking 50 per cent by 2015. “Mobile PC” is an attractive ambiguous category, but we expect it’s safe to imagine the focal point is on low- and mid-power netbooks and ultraportables. Such devices could potentially run off ARM’s forthcoming multi-core chips — like perhaps the quad-core beast inside NVIDIA’s mind-blowing Kal-El processor, or the more distant Cortex-A15 . It’s hard to visualize these tablet-centric chips ever competing with Intel’s top performers, but four years is a mighty long term during this business.
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