Talking of microprocessors, as I was yesterday, x86 is not the full picture of course. Other companies than Intel, AMD or VIA dominate outside mainstream computing fields.
ARM dominates in wireless telecom applications, for example, MIPS in wired telecom apps and Texas Instruments' DSPs in digital signal processing...
To cater for this, we have just updated the Trends & Technologies section with a guide to non x86 microprocessors, bringing together EW content from various sources on the topic of ARM, TI and MIPS. You can read about the Da Vinci processor, the Cortex family or the MIPS 64-bit cores among others, for example...
You can find the Trends & Technologies section at www.electronicsweekly.com/technologies and the new guide to non x86 microprocessors at www.electronicsweekly.com/nonx86micros
(For information about the historical development of microprocessors and general computing issues regarding cache, memory, chipsets, 64-bit computing, power saving, Moore's Law and multi-core processing, please see the x86 guide.)
ARM processors
TI dps