2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Chip coming to the Linux device near you
Last Wednesday, ARM Ltd announced that their 2GHz version of the Cortex-A9 microprocesor. This 2GHz ARM CPU is aimed at smartbooks and smartphones. The most exciting point to note is that this powerful CPU consumes just 0.5w even while running at its peak.
ARM actually wanted its speedy cortex CPU to battle against the Intel Atom CPU which are used in most of the netbooks. Sadly, Microsoft has no plans to port it to the ARM platform. Call it fortunate or unfortunate, you will be stucked with Linux powered smartbooks. Do not get us wrong. We love Linux, especially Ubuntu, but majority of the people find Windows OS more gratifying.
I feel acutely that Microsoft should consider porting Windows 7 (or atleast Windows XP) to ARM architecture. This would enable manufactures to make phones and ARM-based MIDs run desktop operating systems like Windows XP/7 or even Mac OS X.
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Microsoft CANNOT port Windows to ARM, because all softwares sold in box (such as games, antivirus, and so on) are sold as Intel binaries, and thus these softwares would not run on “ARM Windows”, although they are “designed for Windows”.
If MSFT ports their desktop os to ARM platform, I am sure most of the software manufactures will be able to do recompile their apps for the ARM architecture. Another way is to included x86 compatibility mode for the ARM based desktop os