IIRC they didn't sell 40M tablets yet, that's their target for all of 2014.The first article said Intel shipped 40 million tablet parts.
IIRC they didn't sell 40M tablets yet, that's their target for all of 2014.The first article said Intel shipped 40 million tablet parts.
Atom performance is going to start appearing more and more in the 100-200 USD range. With more upscale variants in the 200-500 USD range. I'm not sure Atom variants higher than 500 USD will exist for much longer. All the more interesting when you consider their company wide margins are still stratospherically high.
I would be impressed . A surface pro 3 with core m would be really niceFanless Broadwell is set to take the stage with tablets starting from 500 USD and possibly lower, I believe. It's somewhat amazing how fast Intel is trasitioning into the lower price brackets with their tablet chips. 2 years ago it was difficult to find an Atom tablet for less than 800 USD, with most of them being 900+ USD. A core based tablet usually started around 1500 USD and up back then.
With fanless Broadwell getting into Atom's power envelope, it may be that Intel will, as you noted before, keep performance the same but continue to shrink the chip (cheaper to produce) and lower its power consumption.
I doubt apple will use intel chips even if performance shifts in their favor as apple has to much control over the chips.Broadwell (and followups) then take over the high performance tablet category to compete with Apple and Samsung. While the cost to manufacture Atom based chips for the low end continues to decrease while at the same time offering better and better battery life.
When Intel spoke of breaking even with their Mobile Chip division it may be that they expect the cost to manufacture Atom based chips will drastically decline with upcoming chips while boosting demand for higher margin chips.
There's also the possibility that if fanless Broadwell (or its followups) based tablets end up offering greater performance and lower power consumption than competing iPad solutions, that Apple could be forced into using Intel chips as they were when they were forced to transition to Intel CPUs for their Mac products.
A whole of IFs, and it isn't as if ARM is going to stand still while all of this is happening. It's just a question of whether Intel's progress will start to slow now that they are finally really serious about the segment, or if ARM can increase its progress to stave off Intel. Unfortunately, Arm (and their partners) doesn't have access to Intel's fabs, so they have to do better than just match Intel in design as they have to make up for the fab advantage that Intel has as well.
And there's still one thing that could possibly trip them up. Graphics performance. It is getting better certainly, but it's an area where the competition still has a good chance to one up them. Although with Nvidia doing all it can to slow the competition (in the mobile space) there, that could just play right into Intel's hands.
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The Dell Venue 8 Pro has 5 GHz wifi support. I wouldn't surprised if you get the same Atheros wifi board.The defining spec was that it supposedly supports 5GHz WiFi networks, so it'll be my Steam Home Streaming client for the house, along with this:
The Dell Venue 8 Pro has 5 GHz wifi support. I wouldn't surprised if you get the same Atheros wifi board.
I was incorrect, it used to be the top performing SOC in the basemark OS II Memory benchmark but the K1 one beat it. The biggest issue is that as you got me to investigate further I'm not sure how those score related to the efficiency of the memory subsystem and memory controller.Care to provide evidence for that?
You are right again.That will heavily depend on what is measured. For instance many SPEC benchmarks are compiled in 32-bit mode to get higher scores.
Also look at this post comparing nbench 32- vs 64-bit on Z3770.
The majority of power taken by a modem isn't by the digital portion, but the RF. That can't easily shrink to new process technologies.Airmont should be much better than silvermont but intel really needs to get its modems in house , they are using 28nm tmsc . I hope they get it in house for the next batch of products on 14nm . We would see drastic power savings
Sounds like a mini, self-aligning, parabolic dish is called forThe majority of power taken by a modem isn't by the digital portion, but the RF. That can't easily shrink to new process technologies.
Dang, didn't see that the new Venue 8 7000 is an Android device, d'oh. Wonder if they'll provide an updated "Pro" version of that box for Windows losers like me...
There is a small problem: It uses a Z3580 and delievers higher GPU power.Dang, didn't see that the new Venue 8 7000 is an Android device, d'oh. Wonder if they'll provide an updated "Pro" version of that box for Windows losers like me...