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Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet)

Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Sep 21, 2012 3:58 UTC (Fri) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)
In reply to: Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet) by liljencrantz
Parent article: Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet)

I think the time when smartphones, tablets and the other types of underpowered miniature computers that are using atom processors are powerful enough to make good use of virtualization is still a few years away.
I disagree. I routinely use virtual machines on a miniature computer using a 1.6 GHz Atom CPU. It is underpowered only relative to high-power desktop processors. It wouldn't be a good choice for the latest first-person shooters, but there are plenty of non-graphics workloads that are just fine running in a VM on it.


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