ARM Chip In Dell Latitude Z Could Spark Quiet Revolution

Amongst the many innovations introduced by Dell's latest Latitude Z laptop is one that is not clearly visible; tucked in the device is a small secondary processor from ARM that runs a separate Operating System.The solution, which Dell calls a sub-processor and a sub-operating system, has been deployed on the Latitude E4200 and E4300 notebooks. Codenamed BlackTop (for Blackberry Laptop), the embedded system uses an unknown ARM processor coupled with a customised SUSE...