ARM Cortex processors are trying to break into the market NetBook `s!

It turns out that not only NVidia & VIA want to compete with Intel Atom (see: “Nvidia set about creating an Intel-compatible processor!” ), But also ARM with its Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 MPCore processors - see: “Company ARM ready to fight Intel at MWC 2009 »
[ Mobile World Congress takes place from February 16 to February 19, 2009 in Barcelona, ​​Spain]

True, ARM has its own RISC architecture not compatible with the Intel x86 architecture used in Intel Atom processors, but this architecture is the most popular on the smartphone market and is also used in such popular devices as Apple iPhone 3G & Apple iPod Touch.
It seems that ARM decided that their processors had grown to the NetBook `s market.
And they are right to some extent - if you put on NetBook not MS Windows XP OS, but one of the Linux varieties, for example:
1. The one that Nokia puts on its Nokia N810 tablets (made by the way on ARMs) - Internet Tablet OS 2008 OS - it's Maemo Linux 4.0 ;
2. Or install Google Android, originally developed for smartphones on ARM processors, but able to make money even on Netbooks of the Intel x86 platform - see: “ Is Intel preparing to release Android netbooks?” ;
3. Well, or one of the versions of Linux (although it will have to be compiled for ARM processors) that comes with the cheapest NetBooks and preinstalled with Linux from manufacturers such as Acer, MSI and Asus, the latter installs Xandros Linux - see: “Acquaintance with Asus Eee PC 701 (Part 2): Xandros Linux ;
4. Well, or the most unlikely - suddenly Apple wants to make its NetBook on an ARM processor and install its new-fashioned OS Apple OS X iPhone , which has already gained tremendous popularity on Apple iPhone 3G smartphones (inside which is an ARM processor).

So, as a result, the ARM processors may turn out to be not the worst: in the sense of not slow and not hot, and not bulky, and at the same time also a long-playing Netbook battery charge :)