"When it comes to the brains of these gadgets, Intel, the largest chip company in the world, launched a low-power x86 chip that could act as the engine for notebooks, netbooks and even phones. However, the traditional companies making the “brains” of smartphones aren’t letting Intel enter their market without a fight. Vendors such as Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung and Freescale are building applications processors based on an IP core from ARM, that are becoming powerful enough to run mobile Internet devices, and perhaps netbooks. Even graphics chipmaker Nvidia has built an application processor for smartphones and mobile Internet devices." – Alan Cheslow
