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60 Million people have bought Xbox 360s.
At its heart, the Xenon processor used in Xboxes is a PowerPC chip surrounded by high performance floating point engines. So, chalk one up for RISC based architectures.

TPB says

Windows 7 sales surpassed 500 million copies this year. It was the highest grossing pre-order in Amazon's history (surpassing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). 60 Million people have bought Xbox 360s. 18 million people have bought the Kinect. 200 Million copies of Office 2010 alone have been sold.

This says a lot about the intel processor, considering Windows runs on it.

William E Baughb

There are *OVER ONE AND A HALF BILLION PHONES ALONE* sold *EVERY SINGLE YEAR*

I can't reiterate this enough.

PCs are a very small portion of consumer electronics devices.

Even windows is running on ARM now.

well who shops a link from a spam forum post you dick stick?
Jesus what a complete waste of time.
Why anyone would chose to spam cheap bastards on a forum dedicated to frugality, is beyond me.

Sorry that spammer got through. I manage to block 50 to 100 a day, but can't get them all.

Thanks for using the "Dislike" link! That tipped me off.

TPB says

Looks interesting, more smooth than the Snap dragon processor that's for sure.
The end says look for it in the next coming months.

They have been saying this for many years. You can always run things smoother consuming more power or running hotter. There is a reason MSFT decided to throw them under the bus on Windows. If intc had their act together the wintel monopoly would have continued with amd as a pretend competitor.

Now they have to deal with other 100Billion dollar companies like Samsung, Qualcomm in a real competition with pricing advantage for consumers. This may be a different ball game than small fry like AMD and NVDA. There is nothing special in their processor. The only way they can win is by going to 14nm before other people.