Sure but there is a major advantage in going with X86 for Windows 8, it gives you legacy applications. What advantage would Samsung have in using X86 processor for Android?
Be it Apple with its Swift or Qualcom and Krait, I expect not neat improvements till they jump to another lithography (as far as CPU performances are concerned).
Many things. Cedar Trail is still basically a 5 year old architechture with minor tweaks. Slightly better GPU, etc. It's still on a 32 nm process which is not low power.
Krait is significantly newer on a 28 nm LP process.
Yet despite that they are roughly comparable in both performance and power.
The A15 is faster, but also far more power hungry. Using up to 4x the power but rarely 4x the performance.
And to achieve the 4W TDP in the Anandtech test it has to throttle the CPU if both it and the GPU are being used. In this scenario, there's no reason Haswell won't be competitive in performance and power. So Atom based SOC's obviously won't be competing with A15.
Also looking at the leaked roadmap Intel is promising 2X better performance with less power draw but most of it seems to be from the clock frequency of +2.6 GHz.. No wonder its not coming until Q1 2014
Intel is not matching ARM prices with their 5 year old Atom on mature process but they will start doing that with Haswell/Silvermont? Yeah ok....
Also looking at the leaked roadmap Intel is promising 2X better performance with less power draw but most of it seems to be from the clock frequency of +2.6 GHz.. No wonder its not coming until Q1 2014
I'm surprised by that release date, I would have expected the new Atom at least 3 months earlier; many news back in July were claiming Q4 2013 for Bay Trail.Also looking at the leaked roadmap Intel is promising 2X better performance with less power draw but most of it seems to be from the clock frequency of +2.6 GHz.. No wonder its not coming until Q1 2014
While 2.6 or 2.7GHz CPU would be bad ass to have in a phone, frankly I'm not convinced a phone, or even a tablet really needs that level of oomph. My iPhone4 is doing just fine, with its what, 800ish MHz single core ARM9 or whatever is packed in there. Methinks people are unlikely to run more demanding apps on their portable devices just because available CPU power increases. It hasn't been true for desktop computers that's for sure.Lower power draw running a more complex core at 2.7GHz vs 1.8GHz certainly has to be seen to be believed.
I'm surprised by that release date, I would have expected the new Atom at least 3 months earlier; many news back in July were claiming Q4 2013 for Bay Trail.
Perhaps is that 2014 date only for tablet chips, and we'll see some smartphone targetted SoC earlier.
EDIT : I think I got it wrong: the Q1 2014 is Bay Trail for nettop. So perhaps the tablet version still is scheduled for Q4 2013.
While 2.6 or 2.7GHz CPU would be bad ass to have in a phone, frankly I'm not convinced a phone, or even a tablet really needs that level of oomph. My iPhone4 is doing just fine, with its what, 800ish MHz single core ARM9 or whatever is packed in there. Methinks people are unlikely to run more demanding apps on their portable devices just because available CPU power increases. It hasn't been true for desktop computers that's for sure.
All it's most likely to accomplish is bloat software. ...Which ironically also is true for desktop computers...
While 2.6 or 2.7GHz CPU would be bad ass to have in a phone, frankly I'm not convinced a phone, or even a tablet really needs that level of oomph. My iPhone4 is doing just fine, with its what, 800ish MHz single core ARM9 or whatever is packed in there. Methinks people are unlikely to run more demanding apps on their portable devices just because available CPU power increases. It hasn't been true for desktop computers that's for sure.
WHATEVER.Cortex-A9, please don't call it ARM9 >_>
Looking at most apps, they don't really need more. Generally most iOS apps (that aren't games) are quite simple and could just as well have run in a web browser.While 800MHz may have been good enough for you who are you to really say what's good for everyone else?
Much of the performance hoopla is artificial need from different makers to differentiate themselves from the competition, not any actual, real-world performance limit running software. Except for games, which are crippled by touch input and small screen sizes (not to mention memory and storage limits) anyway, thus putting a natural limit for complexity.At the very least everyone making these tablets disagrees.
3D performance isn't fast that's for sure, but who plays complex games on a phone anyway? Touch input is often fiddly, not seldomly inaccurate.Games probably suck too, at least according to today's standards.
Games probably suck too, at least according to today's standards.
None. What I'm suggesting is that Samsung will eventually make a dockable (maybe even wirelessly) Windows superphone that can run x86 apps. It will be able to function as your primary personal computing device, whether you're interacting with a tablet, laptop, or the phone itself.Sure but there is a major advantage in going with X86 for Windows 8, it gives you legacy applications. What advantage would Samsung have in using X86 processor for Android?
Well it is the figure in turbo mode, it may help to burst through dome task that can't be conveniently multi threaded and then goes into sleep.
It may also be that Intel may want to make 1 core soc and wants high single thread performance.
anyway Q1 2014 is quiet far, do you think they will offer a refresh of atom in the mean time?
Still I can play Infinity Blade or RealRacing2 or Shadowgun just fine on my iPod Touch4 (600MHz). I bet these games require much more than 40 draw calls and run smoothly.I can confirm that an iphone 4 (A8/sgx 535) dies with anything over ~40 draw calls.
Z2580 is coming out soon, which will offer two Saltwell cores paired with SGX544MP2. There's been some rumblings recently that said configuration will actually be an update to Clover Trail, and that the Medfield version will have an SGX544MP1.