cOMPARISON WITH x86 ->The ARM is very prevalent in low power embedded applications such as Ipods, Pa lm Pilots, and

network routers. They are designed for low power consumption, meaning a laptop using an ARM processor is g oing to possibly have much better battery life than an x86 based laptop. ->The disadvantage to the ARM processor is that it is not binary compatible with x86. This means your not going to be running windows any time soon. There are several Unix operating systems that can run on ARM however, such as Linux and BSD. Ubuntu will run on it, which is a very handy and nice linux distribution ->x86 has concentrated on performance, and ARM has concentrated on power consump tion; so both are better at their own objectives ->Also, ARM are RISC-type, and x86 are CISC-type architectures. RISC instruction s do one operation at a time, so they're quick, but you need a lot of them to get things done. CISC have both single oper ations and complex multi-operations. So you need less of them, but they take longer to finish. http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4376703/ARM-has-not-won-the-processor-wa rs-yet

COMPARISON WITH INTEL's ATOM ->Intel in particular has a 20-year head start over ARM, resulting in a maturity , sophistication and veneration that will be hard to displace. Intel's ecosystem of support chips, subsystems and software is unpara lleled in the industry and addresses many more real-world issues than the low-power and small die size that makes ARM a no -brainer for many new designs. -> the fast-growing cloud computing space uses virtualization to offer mobile de vice users access to applications running on servers for which Intel has a top-to-bottom solution VTx which securely links x8 6-based mobile devices with Xeon-based cloud computers. ARM, on the other hand, is still pursuing virtualization extens ions that could offer similar integration of mobile devices into cloud computing realms. ->ARM is becoming more and more mature its graduated from its initial light-weig ht processors for mobile devices to beefier processors like the A15 which can compete with Intel's Atom, but they ar e not yet in the Xeon class. ->ARM is now threatening the ecosystem of MIPS going into basestations, going in to networking, and gaining mainstream licensees like Texas Instruments, Freescale and LSI ->ARM currently has extensions aimed at addressing digital signal processing (DS P), vector processing and other specialized needs