So, it seems Samsung has chosen Intel processors for at least one of their new tablets. News link.
This puts a certain urgency in development of x86 compatibility for Unity Android, assuming these new tablets become popular.
What’s everyone else’s impressions on this matter?
I would guess the tablet has some sort of emulation layer in place, because otherwise many games wouldn’t run on it, and parents would return those devices back to store when little Peter notices that HitGameXYZ™ won’t work with it.
I suppose that emulation of the ARM instruction set would mean quite horrible performance, unless the emulation was implemented on the Intel chip rather than as a software layer. Thanks for the input, it gives me something to look for on Intel’s site.
x86 means running windows (or linux)… Any apps that run on your win8/linux desktop currently will run on an x86 win8/linux tablet, there is fundamentally no difference, just minor ones which are easy to address. So, there will be plenty of games on it.
We are talking about Android tablet here…, I seriously doubt that regulars users are going to unlock the bootloader + install Win/Linux on it.