On 9/15/2012 11:13 AM, Eric Keller wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Przemek Klosowski < > przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/09/intel-declares-clover-trail-atom-processor-a-no-linux-zone/ >> >> The likely alternative >> is it'll be a proprietary curiosity that it'll peter out in the >> marketplace. Will they ever learn... >> > I don't see the windows phone and windows tablet as a viable market, so > Intel just wasted their time. I understand Microsoft fires their "lowest > 10 percent" of their employees every year, and Intel is widely rumored to > fire anyone over 50, so these two corporate dinosaurs deserve each other. > > Eric >
Note that AMD made a similar announcement regarding its Hondo processor appearing only in Windows8 tablets at launch. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE4NTY It's a weird and wonderful world we techies live in. Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
