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This is an empty statement. Let me nit pick it for you: > With their experience In mobile/tablets? Did you read the article - there have only been a handful of
by gcc_programmer 10y ago
This is an empty statement. Let me nit pick it for you:
> With their experience
In mobile/tablets? Did you read the article - there have only been a handful of intel devices (and less cores) out there that intel has had a part in. Virtually every mobile phone and tablet out there has been ARM (including Nokia from the past).
> fabrication process
You don't need to own a fabrication process to be competitive in mobile, since in that market cost and power efficiency matter more than performance, so OEMs will stick with a process that is good enough for now and then they'll al move to a newer one. This is not what the market competes on.
> tech
Yes, their tech is very performant. Yes, if I want to crunch numbers I will buy an Intel chip. But if my mobile phone has a Xeon, it will run out of batery in 30 minutes. Even Atom chips are an order of magnitude less power efficient than cores of other companies in mobile.
So, no, they can't 'rip the competition' in mobile easily.
- blibble 10y ago> there have only been a handful of intel devices (and less cores) out there that intel has had a part in. and I think nearly every one of these Intel has had to pay the manufacturer to use Atom over ARM
- int0x80 10y agoI know it's a generic statement. My point is that Intel, the most important chip vendor in the world, knows very well how to make ICs. If they know how to make the best desktop and server CPUs, it's only a matter of will and time to translate that knowledge and expertise to the mobile market. They also have more and better resources (money and engineers).