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There's a very large difference between a Cortex-A7 in a Moto G and a Cortex-A57 or Cortex a72. The latter are about 3x faster. Atom has barely increased its s
by mtgx 11y ago
There's a very large difference between a Cortex-A7 in a Moto G and a Cortex-A57 or Cortex a72. The latter are about 3x faster.
Atom has barely increased its single-threaded performance from like 300 pts in Passmark to about 540 right now (in Pentiums, in PCs, which cost $160 a pop).
Intel is not competitive on price. That's why Atom didn't pan out in mobile. They tried to do it by heavily subsidizing its high-end mobile chips, which typically cost close to $50, to compete against a $15 mid-range Qualcomm chip. That's why some people were "impressed" by what an Asus Zenfone could do for instance, for its mid-range price overall.
And if Intel can't compete with Atom on price, then there's NO CHANCE it will ever compete with Core M in mobile. The only reason it even exists in so called "tablets" that go for $1000 right now, is because Microsoft failed to make a good case for ARM-based Windows machines with its poor app support. But that will always remain a niche.
- creshal 11y ago> And if Intel can't compete with Atom on price, then there's NO CHANCE it will ever compete with Core M in mobile. The only reason it even exists in so called "tablets" that go for $1000 right now, is because Microsoft failed to make a good case for ARM-based Windows machines with its poor app support. But that will always remain a niche. And outside the Surface those aren't selling well either. (IMO rightfully so, the Venue 11 Pro is the worst device I've seen in years – hypothetical hardware dickwaving aside, even a $50 OEM Android tablet has better UX and usability than Windows 10 without mouse/keyboard.)
- B1FF_PSUVM 11y agoAsus T-100 TA series work pretty well as Windows 8/10 tablets.
- creshal 11y agoYes, because they ship a keyboard and touchpad. But you wouldn't buy the Asus ZenPad instead and try to use Windows 8/10 solely with touchscreen, would you? It's the complete opposite of how iOS/Android tablets operate.