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AS VEGAS--Texas Instruments is offering one of the most revealing demos of Windows 8 on  ARM  yet at CES .                           That's not saying a lot, though, as demos of Microsoft's next operating system on ARM processors have been extremely restrictive, if nonexistent to date in public (Nvidia's untouchable, relatively static CES demo is behind closed glass). But TI pushed the boundaries a bit in a demo for CNET at CES. The demo  tapped TI's freshly minted OMAP4470 ARM processor , according to Bill Crean, an OMAP product marketing manager. Needless to say, I was not permitted to take video. But TI's Crean demonstrated live scrolling with Windows 8 Explorer on the CNN news site. Scrolling was fluid and I didn't see the jerkiness that I do get, by the way, with my Verizon-Motorola XyBoard  tablet  on  Android  3.2. Again, that's not revealing a lot, but Windows 8 on ARM is a...

Intel badly needs a way into the mobile business, and it may have found it through Motorola Mobility. Intel and Motorola today announced a multiyear, multidevice partnership in which Motorola would use Intel's processors to power its  Android  products. The two companies are planning to show off a device later this year, but they didn't specify whether it would be a  tablet  or a smartphone. A tie-up with Motorola is a major coup for Intel, which has struggled to get companies to use its processors for mobile devices. Its chips, which run on an architecture type known as x86, use more power and are more ideally suited to larger PCs and laptops. Virtually all mobile devices use ARM-based chips, which are more efficient and able to sleep longer without drawing as much power, and are better suited to smaller gadgets. As a result of those key differences, Intel has found few takers on the mobile end. Companies using ARM chips, such as Qualcomm and Tegra, have seen ...