by Brooke Crothers, CNET news.com
Will small, powerful, connected-to-everything devices running on non-Intel silicon become the personal computer? The CEO of graphics-chip supplier Nvidia thinks so. The sentiment, voiced at the company’s annual conference this week by chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang, has been expressed before. But that doesn’t mean Huang has got it all wrong. Indeed, ARM-based devices such as Apple’s iPhone and iPad, Motorola’s Droid, Research In Motion’s BlackBerry, and countless future smartphones and tablets from Motorola, RIM, Apple, and others will use the ARM chip design. “It is very clear now that mobile computing will be a completely disruptive force to all of computing.” Huang continued. “This (smartphone) is the first computer that is equipped with all kinds of sensors, cameras, microphones, GPSs, and accelerometers. This is the first computer that’s context aware. Situation aware. Who knows, someday it may be self-aware,” he said.
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