Intel upgrades processors

Intel upgrades processors - Following up on their succesful StrongARM processors, which run most Pocket PC handhelds, Intel has introduced a new processor series for mobiles and handhelds. The new XScale processor series includes 2 processors, the PXA250 for handhelds, and the PXA210 for mobile phones.
With built in bluetooth, compactFlash, USB, SD and  MultiMediaCard support, and Clockspeeds up to 400 MHz (200 MHz for the PXA210) the Intel processors are ready to compete with Texas Instruments on the lucrative market for mobile-phone processors, as well as secure Intels dominant position on the handheld market.

I have to say that this announcement from Intel is a matter of impeccable timing, as PalmOS, just annonced last week that they are switching from Motorolas 68k architectur (and their Draginball processors) to an ARM architecture (the primary domain of Texas Instruments and Intel).
Of course Motorola has realized the error of their ways and also presented ARM based processor (the DragonBall MX1) at the recently held PalmSource Conference.
And Intel's main desktop processor rival AMD, recently purchased Alchemy, a smaller producer of mobile processors, with the in-house competance to quickly develop an ARM-based processor.

In other words it seems like the mobile and handheld industries are settling on the ARM architecture, with a lot of competition likely to press prices in the coming few years.
On the market for slightly larger, sub-notebooks, competition is mainly between AMD and Intel's x86 architectures and TransMetas power-efficient  Crusoe architecture.