News - Intel CEO bullish on tablet and smartphone success

[HEXUS]

And unveils a new range of chips called Quark.

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[wombat]

Yep all fantastic and all that, means nothing until I can go into a store and look at said phones and tablets.

[watercooled]

Interesting, but the flashy numbers are meaningless in isolation. 10mm^2 and 100mW aren't especially small in the embedded market; a 32mm Atom is 5.6mm^2, Jaguar is 3.1, A15 is 1.62 and A7 is 0.45 (all 28nm besides Atom). Yeah that's just the core, but there's plenty of room for cache/uncore with a 10mm budget.

A15 is smaller than 20% of current Atom, yet frequently outperforms it; is Quark going to be faster than Atom?

As for energy consumption, 100mW isn't especially low depending what market these fall into; I've played with an Energy Micro demo board, based on ARM M0 IIRC, which you can get down to a few µW depending on mode, in fact it's kind of expected in that market. 100mW is a cosmic amount of energy there, where things are expected to last years on an CR2016 battery.

Of course, Intel probably isn't targeting that sort of market, but see what I mean about a few numbers in isolation?

[Jimbo75]

I read the title as Intel CEO Bull**** on tablet and smartphone success and just called it a day.

[crossy]

I read the title as Intel CEO Bull**** on tablet and smartphone success and just called it a day.

Thank the maker for that - I thought I was the only one!
Followup thought was "Heck, Hexus is getting pretty edgy/judgemental these days"