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Even if you have an Intel-based phone in your pocket, it probably has ARM cores in it too. They get everywhere :-)


Are you sure about that? (I hear they use low-end x86 cores and ARC cores but I haven't heard about ARM. ARC in general is very hackable while ARM is not hackable at all, so those rumors made sense to me.)


A lot of flash media controllers use an arm core, for example. Also, Intel uses ARM's graphics in some of their low power consumption chips [2]. Because ARM chips sip power so well, you find them in some really surprising places.

[1] http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554

[2] http://techreport.com/news/27878/atom-x3-chips-target-cheap-...


Well there are many places where you might find an ARM e.g. baseband chip, power management chip, GPS chip and so on.




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