Wednesday, April 18th 2012
AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS
AMD and Google are locked in a race to buy out MIPS, an application processor architecture designer competitive to ARM. AMD comes from a decades old presence in the microprocessor industry, while Google is a satrap with smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computing devices thanks to its Android operating system. With Microsoft opening up to ARM architecture with Windows 8 RT, it is in Google's interests to hedge its bets on an alternative machine architecture to both x86 and ARM. The easiest way to that is buying out MIPS and funding development of powerful processors based on it. For AMD, it's a bid to stay competitive in the low-power processor market as Intel began making inroads to smartphone processor market.
Sources:
Bright Side of News, X-bit Labs
33 Comments on AMD and Google in Race to Buy Out MIPS
^ that would be funny if AMD won the race and then google bought AMD but i do not believe the x86 license is transferable.
If you heard those problems on release, maybe it was running something below 4.0
Actually, they are selling the ainol novo with android 4.0, for less than 100$
As an example Angry birds runs perfectly fine without a glitch. It seems it doesn't have any arm code in it.
It would have been smarter choice to buy google stock but when I realized it was 200x more expensive than when I started planning something.
You are overacted.