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Orange San Diego: Intel brings the x86 vs. ARM smartphone war to Europe
- blibble 14y agothere's not really a war at all, is there? ARM are completely dominant in this market.
- codedivine 14y agoARM are completely dominant .. currently. If Intel does manage to execute on their roadmap, then I wouldn't be so sure.
- dbcooper 14y agoDon't underestimate the value of Intel's manufacturing dominance.
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- ippisl 14y agoIntel is getting pretty close. in a benchmark of a medfield phone, battery capacity for web browsing was just 20% lower than the best android phone benchmarked[1]. And medfield still uses 32nm process,not the latest finfet 22nm process intel is so proud of. And the orange san-diego is also priced reasonably at $300. So this looks like a fair fight. [1]http://hexus.net/mobile/news/android/38501-intel-based-smartphone-lava-xolo-news-update/ http://hexus.net/mobile/news/android/38501-intel-based-smart...
- EwanToo 14y agoThe real question is "How little are Intel willing to sell the CPU in this phone for?". A fairly up to date Cortex-A8 ARM CPU can be had for under $5 [1] and as impressive as Intel's manufacturing base is, their profits are based on selling CPUs at 50-100x higher prices than this. Whatever happens, I think the coming battle between generic ARM chips and x86 is going to slash Intel's profitability. [1] - http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/dsp/arm.page?DCMP=TIHeaderTracking&HQS=Other+OT+hdr_p_arm http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/dsp/arm.page?DCMP=TIHeaderTracking...
- protomyth 14y agoThe problem with Intel is the lack of ability to customize the SoC. Intel has run NVidia out of the chipset market and has incentives to do the same in the mobile market.
- ConstantineXVI 14y agoYou can't customize the SoCs from nVidia/Samsung/TI/Qualcomm either.