Freescale is demoing $199 laptop based on its latest 1GHz iMX515 processor at CES. The processor is based on ARM architecture and among other things offers support for codecs, OpenGL/VG and not to mention, Flash Lite. It claims that because of all the hardware support for Flash Lite, it will give users satisfactory experience.

The reference notebook has been put together by Asus, and runs Ubuntu Linux. The ARM architecture is definitely a much low power architecture than X86. Freescale has some power management chips which it claims will remove the need for fan altogether from the notebook. No news on how long the battery will last.

TI OMAP platform based on ARM Cortex A8 is also capable of running at 600 MHz and generally provides satisfactory experience for netbook like devices. While Intel is trying to break into mobile market with Atom, ARM is quietly breaking into the netbook market dominated by Intel.

Well- its Intel vs ARM game ON.