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“IBM has joined forces with chip companies Arm,
Freescale, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments, to create a
company that will accelerate the development of Linux software for
devices such as mobile phones, tablet computers and digital
televisions.“The move is a challenge to Intel and Microsoft, which are
looking to move beyond their dominance of the personal computing
market to take a large share of the mobile phone and hybrid device
market.“Arm-based chips are used in more than 95 per cent of the
world’s mobile phones and also power Apple’s iPad tablet. However,
Intel is developing smaller, more power efficient, Atom chips which
could also be used for these kinds of devices.”