Arm

ARM Cortex M0+ chip (Flycatcher), a 32-bit chip with low price and small size, may lead to linking common items over the Internet.

Windows 8 limits owners from booting non-Windows operating systems on ARM tablets.

Two questions: will a tablet become your PC one day soon? And when you buy a Windows 8 system, will that PC or tablet run on an ARM processor?

Intel lost the mobile market to ARM processors, the choice for mobile operating systems. Various Intel efforts to increase mobile use of their Atom processor (the netbook CPU) have not succeeded. So now Intel is working directly with Google to power Android tablets and smartphones.

The sniping between Microsoft and Intel got more serious this week, as Intel accused its erstwhile partner of planning Win8 versions that won't run current apps

A flaw in the less-revolutionary parts of Sandy Bridge chipset may show Intel is ignoring fundamentals to chase too many new markets.

Rather than accept the prognosis that the emergence of low-cost, underpowered computing devices spelled doom for its business, chip maker Intel is moving to capitalize on the emergence of netbooks and tablets.

Linaro comes across as yet-another-embedded consortium trying to get their version of hardware/software standards more firmly placed in the marketplace. Superficially, that seems a fair assessment, but take another look and you've really got an organization that's waded into the trenches of embedded Linux and is trying to make sense of it all.