What I Took From the Article
There's a foundry in Red China capable of making 28 nm chips? Oh noes, we're all DOOMED!
But I'm surprised that ARM isn't in more trouble already. Never mind Intel using the x86 chip as an Android alternative. Since most Android programs use bytecode rather than native code, other chips more similar to ARM, and thus presumably more suitable to smartphone chips, could be used. Thus, why isn't MIPS entering this market?
Or, more to the point, some RISC chip vendors are licensing their architectures on generous terms, because they would really like to see them more widely adopted. So why not SPARC smartphones, or PowerPC smartphones?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
