great article:
http://www.anandtech.com/gadgets/sho...spx?i=3714&p=1

the future for powerful mobile tech looks great, but how soon till we see a maemo powered device that uses Tegra2 or Omap4?

1) CPU manufacturers make new cpus.

2) Phone manufacturers build phones using those cpus.

Between the two, years may pass. In the case of the OMAP3, about 3-4 years.

BARCELONA, Spain (Feb. 14, 2006) - Offering a breakthrough in how a mobile phone can work for you, Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) today announced its new OMAPTM 3 architecture for mobile phones at a press conference at 3GSM World Congress.

http://www.design-reuse.com/news/126...le-phones.html

Yep - you forgot step 0 though: ARM design a new CPU.

I don't see Nokia/Maemo being too interested in these A9 chips with beefed-up graphics accelerators right now. The graphics side does like to eat (drink) some juice (-> battery size/life) but at the moment the 800x480 class displays aren't crying out loud for those extra flying glyphs. Or that's what I personally think anyway.

Larger (or higher resolution) tablets and netbooks OTOH carry more juice around and also have higher performance requirements as they do battle with the Atoms (with or without licensed PowerVR graphics).

Since Nokia has chosen to concentrate on the smartphone market instead of tablets they might only be interested in the (single-core version of) A9 without the tacked-on graphics boosters. An A9 manufactured using finer 40nm or 28/32nm process might be welcome though thanks to the size and energy-efficiency advantages, but the those developments would also help the current Cortex-A8 albeit without the architectural 30% (?) speed boost.

If anything I believe that the A9s will end up being discussed in the "Competitors" section, although with Maemo now so phone-centric I'm not sure if all the upcoming ARM-based tablets and "smartbooks" really compete in the N900/Android/WebOS/BadAssOS/Iphone/etc. phone field. Well, except that many or most of those upcoming tablets and smartbooks seem to allow optional 3G/4G modules which make telephony possible (if software supports it).