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Re:ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs? Hell Yes by Eridrus on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:21AM (#13130392)
Does your comment still stand for the cheap end of things? If Intel struggles to compete on price, then low end ARM may have better perf characteristics.

From what I read, doing binary translation from x86 to ARM is actually not that hard since ARM has many more registers, so I'm sort of hopeful they get decent perf from it.

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Re:ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs? Hell Yes by ZenoArrow on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:56AM (#13138735)
> "If Intel struggles to compete on price, then low end ARM may have better perf characteristics."

I'd suggest it has more to do with the size of the silicon wafer rather than the performance.

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