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If these chips are able to outperform ARM, then it will put android in a very good position because their apps run on a VM. I am assuming these would show up only in android phones and windows 8 tablets? Would windows phone be able to use these, or are their apps native to ARM?


One exception: the vast majority of Android games use a portion of native code; which won't run on Intel chipsets without at least a recompile.

All WinPhone apps run on the .NET VM; however it's up to Microsoft what chips get used in Windows Phone devices. So far; the only SoC in Windows Phones has been the Snapdragon. It may be a while before we see other ARM chips used; much less x86. (This is excluding a theory that Win8 may possibly extend to phones as well)




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