EETimes.com is reporting that according to ABI Research, ARM will overtake the Netbook market by 2014. This is exciting for a couple of reasons. ARM is just an IP supplier; it’s still up to foundries to make the chips. Also, the nature of ARM devices is that they can be easily modified by third parties. This means the CPU market will be much more diverse than it has been for a while. The other exciting reason is that Windows (except for Windows mobile, which is worthless) doesn’t currently run on ARM architectures. We will most likely have much more Linux out there. Either that, or Microsoft steps up their effort on ARM architectures, which is also exciting.
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