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those blog benchmarks are 2013 and 2014. current benchmarks linked in the blog post show ARM competitive with Core i5 (single-core) although not i7. http://ar

those blog benchmarks are 2013 and 2014. current benchmarks linked in the blog post show ARM competitive with Core i5 (single-core) although not i7. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/ipad-pro-review-mac-like-speed-with-all-the-virtues-and-limitations-of-ios/4/#h2 http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/11/ipad-pro-review-mac-lik... blog post also links to published reports saying Intel has 1,000 people working on a SOC for iPhone. http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/16/intel-has-1000-people-working-on-chips-for-the-iphone/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/10/16/intel-has-1000-people-work...

dogma1138 11y ago
ARS isn't loading for me, yes the a9x is a monster chip especially as far graphics and synthetic benchmarks goes, try real world applications (quite hard to near impossible on Apple devices due to the closed ecosystem) including web server performance, video compression throttling and many more aspects and you'll see that's not the case. It's very competitive with Core-M devices for sure but sorry not sold out on it being competitive against Core-I devices on any level besides maybe graphical performance so far. As far as Intel making apple SOC's and? Intel is selling modems to Apple, and it wants to fab SOC's for them as well. Since Apple is fabless and Intel has the most advanced SC production line at the time it nailed 14nm and it's pushing for 10nm next year for launch in 2017 I don't see this being indicative of anything, Intel tested the water with ARM almost 8 years ago and it decided to continue with x86, and we've seen quite interesting things coming from them Core-M, Xeon-D, and even things like Intel Edison which showed that x86 can be scaled to pretty much every use at this time while still being very interesting and competitive in terms of both price, performance, and power consumption. We've been hearing this gloom and doom about "Wintel" for almost 2 decades now, linux is going to beat them, no wait apple power PC, no ARM, sigh it's getting old. Intel isn't going anywhere soon and it has enough resources to push through and their technology and where they can take it so far does not seem to be obsolete on any scale.
- josh2600 11y ago
  "Nailed 14nm". Lol. I guess maybe you missed all the news about Intel fubar'ing it's 14nm and having to order more 16nm capacity from TSMC to deal with the pain? http://techbuyersguru.com/hotdealsblog/tbg-commentary-intels-14nm-woes-and-the-future-of-cpu-tech/ http://techbuyersguru.com/hotdealsblog/tbg-commentary-intels... Intel might've once been unstoppable, but they're not perfect any more.
- Drdrdrq 11y ago
  Well, Linux did beat them, in two important segments, server and mobile (if you count Android as Linux). They still have enough market share for comeback though.
jhallenworld 11y ago
The A9X sounds impressive.. too bad it's only available to Apple. Here is a counter-point to the article you link: http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/14/ipad-pro-a9x-chip/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/14/ipad-pro-a9x-chip/

dogma1138 11y ago

ARS isn't loading for me, yes the a9x is a monster chip especially as far graphics and synthetic benchmarks goes, try real world applications (quite hard to near impossible on Apple devices due to the closed ecosystem) including web server performance, video compression throttling and many more aspects and you'll see that's not the case. It's very competitive with Core-M devices for sure but sorry not sold out on it being competitive against Core-I devices on any level besides maybe graphical performance so far. As far as Intel making apple SOC's and? Intel is selling modems to Apple, and it wants to fab SOC's for them as well. Since Apple is fabless and Intel has the most advanced SC production line at the time it nailed 14nm and it's pushing for 10nm next year for launch in 2017 I don't see this being indicative of anything, Intel tested the water with ARM almost 8 years ago and it decided to continue with x86, and we've seen quite interesting things coming from them Core-M, Xeon-D, and even things like Intel Edison which showed that x86 can be scaled to pretty much every use at this time while still being very interesting and competitive in terms of both price, performance, and power consumption. We've been hearing this gloom and doom about "Wintel" for almost 2 decades now, linux is going to beat them, no wait apple power PC, no ARM, sigh it's getting old. Intel isn't going anywhere soon and it has enough resources to push through and their technology and where they can take it so far does not seem to be obsolete on any scale.

josh2600 11y ago
"Nailed 14nm". Lol. I guess maybe you missed all the news about Intel fubar'ing it's 14nm and having to order more 16nm capacity from TSMC to deal with the pain? http://techbuyersguru.com/hotdealsblog/tbg-commentary-intels-14nm-woes-and-the-future-of-cpu-tech/ http://techbuyersguru.com/hotdealsblog/tbg-commentary-intels... Intel might've once been unstoppable, but they're not perfect any more.
Drdrdrq 11y ago
Well, Linux did beat them, in two important segments, server and mobile (if you count Android as Linux). They still have enough market share for comeback though.

jhallenworld 11y ago

The A9X sounds impressive.. too bad it's only available to Apple. Here is a counter-point to the article you link: http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/14/ipad-pro-a9x-chip/ http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/14/ipad-pro-a9x-chip/