It's because Intel has stated quite clearly that they plan to transition to x86-based embedded processing. XScale is in their roadmap a sunk cost... and they will continue to woo device makers with x86-based Windows Mobile. Microsoft will probably enter the folly with Rosetta-like RISC-to-x86 translators to make the transition easy as well.
“At a glance -- particularly as a non-Storm user -- you might say "wait a second, that's just a Storm." And in reality, you wouldn't be far off with that assessment.”
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It's because Intel has stated quite clearly that they plan to transition to x86-based embedded processing. XScale is in their roadmap a sunk cost... and they will continue to woo device makers with x86-based Windows Mobile. Microsoft will probably enter the folly with Rosetta-like RISC-to-x86 translators to make the transition easy as well.