anandtech provided a more level-headed analysis. Intel's new design performs well and beats ARM designs - that have already been in market for a year already. T

anandtech provided a more level-headed analysis. Intel's new design performs well and beats ARM designs - that have already been in market for a year already. This years ARM designs based on A15 are quite likely to be as good or better. A1,5 the next generation arm, is wider (more parallel decode and execution units than Atom) and is out-of-order further increasing instructions-per-cycle (at the expense of some complexity and die size). This is like the architectural difference between 486 and pentium. At least on paper, the A15 should be notably faster than Atom if at similar clock speeds (MHz).