According to this El Reg story: "Next year, however, Intel [will introduce] the low-power NGMA core forming the foundation for a series of SoCs that combine processing power, display control facilities and other device management features."Now I understand about every other word there, but they go on:
"It's a move that will set Intel head-to-head with ARM, which currently provides the technology on which Intel's XScale processors are based. Indeed, Intel's goals for NGMA's performance [...] will exert downward pressure on the XScale line.
"XScale won't become redundant overnight - ARM's strength in the PDA and phone markets will see to that - but Intel's desire to establish the x86 instruction set [...] will weaken the XScale proposition over time." But it's not all bad news: "new XScales are on the way, including the gigahertz-class 'Monahans' unveiled yesterday."
Bottom line? Intel look set to drop the XScale, which are used in some recent RISC OS machines. But hopefully not yet.
Source: The Register
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