If the industry netbukov Intel processors at this time were almost single leader (VIA controls a small fraction of the market, and AMD and is still in no hurry to win it), then segment ultramobilnyh devices (UMD, ultra-mobile device) have a very serious competitor. According to researchers from the analytical agency ABI Research, architecture ARM, with its advantages in energy efficiency, will become a formidable weapon in the fight against x86 chips, a key advantage of being compatible with the software environment of most desktop PCs and notebooks. The company ARM has long been working on a concept device Connected Mobile Computer (CMC), which is positioned in the same niche as MID - between the UMPC, netbukami on the one hand and communicators and smartphones on the other. Among the features of CMC indicated support for multiple wireless interfaces, high performance, which should be enough for comfortable working with office and multimedia applications, including music, video, TV, games, and the ability to work offline for a working day than can not yet boast of the device based on the"nuclear"processor. Chief ABI Research analyst Philip Solis (Philip Solis) believed that Intel is still in a more favorable position because of its chipam Atom. Nevertheless, in his view, by the time the UMD-device on the volume of shipments obgonyat netbuki, products based on ARM-processors can become leaders in this segment. As noted, in spite of the marketing slogans of Intel, in ultramobilnom segment of compatibility with the x86 platform is not as critical as in the segment netbukov. Much greater emphasis on persuasion ABI Research, consumers will pay regardless of the outlet and in this regard tyagatsya with ARM processors Intel is hard. The brutal struggle between ARM and x86 architectures will be held in 2009-2010, when the market will be a new platform of Intel Moorestown, which promises to be several times more cost of their predecessors. In the meantime, Intel is trying to reduce the power consumption of its processors, ARM is developing active cooperation with leading software developers. As noted by Mr. Solis, the future ultramobilnogo market will be determined by technological advances x86 camps and business successes ARM. In his analytical report ABI Research predicts that by the number of devices shipped UMD will bypass netbuki in 2013. It also notes that the lion`s share of this market segment will produce based on Linux. In this regard there are three promising platform - Mobiln, supported by Intel, LiMo Platform, and Maemo, which is used in Internet planshetah Nokia (for the next year, Nokia is preparing ultramobilnoe device with a new powerful TI OMAP3x at the core ARM Cortex-A8) .
