ZOTAC NVIDIA: Mobile processor: news at Qualcomm and ARM

Despite the current dominance of Intel, with its Atom platform in the sector Netbook Internet and other mobile terminals, new players trying to successfully carve out with similar solutions

Starting with ARM, which has deployed its mobile processors in many smartphones and the latest Internet tablet Archos.The company has just announced its willingness to strengthen the Netbook and MID by partnering with Canonical among others to develop a specific version of Ubuntu that will operate the ARMv7 architecture of the mark.

The latter is expected to take part Cortex processor ARM and Cortex-A8-A9 to improve on the one hand the performance of mobile terminals and to increase their autonomy and function display video on the other.An alternative to Intel Atom somehow as stated Kerry McGuire, director of strategy at ARM laptopmag webzine."We will differentiate solutions in managing high-resolution videos with maximum energy savings."The GNU / Linux distribution Ubuntu ARM expected in April 2009.

At the same time, which is Qualcomm welcomes the adoption of its mobile Snapdragon chip in more than thirty products ...which should see the day during the first half of 2009.Acer, Asus, Compal, HTC, Inventec, LG Electronics, Samsung and Quanta should start or simply assemble such products which can be equipped with different systems, Windows Mobile Linux via Android.