Canonical announced that the LPIA (Low-Power Intel Architecture) architecture would no longer be supported.
Canonical drops support for LPIA because users are not interested in LPIA.The developers decided to retire it.
Canonical Drops Support for LPIA on Ubuntu 10.04
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Ubuntu To Stop Supporting LPIA Architecture
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Two years ago Ubuntu began supporting LPIA, or the Low-Power Intel Architecture. LPIA is i386, but with different compile-time optimizations. LPIA was in use by the Ubuntu Mobile project with Intel's recent mobile CPUs supporting this lower-power architecture. Tests we carried out earlier this year at Phoronix showed Ubuntu's LPIA-based MID spin can conserve 10%+ power.
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