Netbook Drama: Arm Might Surpass Intel by 2012

There’s nothing like an analyst report to create drama: Robert Castellano (The info Network) believes that the future of Netbooks lies with ARM and its Cortex-A9 architecture. According to him, ARM’s processor will be much cheaper than Intel’s offering - cheap decent to sway swaths of netbook makers to ARM’s side. For that to happen, Mr. Castellano is betting on two things:

* Massive adoption of Linux, as Microsoft does not intent to build an ARM version
* Dominance of Cloud computing that would “eliminate”

First, predicting the future is a difficult business and Robert Castellano might be right, but in my opinion, he’s most likely very wrong.