Well, Intel vaguely sells a 4-core Xeon at 1.8/2.8 GHz with 25 W TDP [1], then between the hyperthreading and higher IPC you've mostly made up for the fewer cor

Well, Intel vaguely sells a 4-core Xeon at 1.8/2.8 GHz with 25 W TDP [1], then between the hyperthreading and higher IPC you've mostly made up for the fewer cores relative to this ARM part. [1] http://ark.intel.com/products/75053/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1230L-v3-8M-Cache-1_80-GHz http://ark.intel.com/products/75053/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-...