ARM versus Intel? No contest, says Linus Torvalds

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Intel x86 still Torvalds' "favourite architecture"

ARM is unlikely to dislodge Intel from heavyweight computing as the Intel "infrastructure" is more unified and open, according to Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Torvalds made the comments in a on...

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