Intel Clover Trail+: A New Smartphone Platform With Atom Z2580

[ojas]

[citation][nom]irish_adam[/nom]Even if you ignore the fact that Intel were fined for illegal business practices that helped force AMD out of the market, they have the money, staff and the manufacturing technology that surpasses pretty much every competitor. If you think Intel are pushing themselves then u must be blind, 5-10% improvements on each generation? yeah great.The only thing ARM cores have over x86 cores is power efficiency, lets face it if you take that out of the equation then ARM is dead. With Intel moving to smaller and smaller manufacturing processes, power consumption is going to drop and fairly fast too. When this happens ARM will not be able to compete and where will your competition be then? ARM will end up like AMD, broke![/citation]
I'm not sure whether you're trolling or not, you're sort of contradicting yourself. The second half, i agree with, though AMD's return is due (and it seems very much on track), and no, they're not broke.

But the first half:
I keep hearing this about the 10% improvements, but you have to look at the big picture, Intel's platform as a whole has come a long way. Plus power consumption is much less than what it was before (a quad core mobile i7 idles at 2w, with a load power consumption of 33w @ ~3GHz, and posts a higher Cinebench result than an i7-960). A Pentium G850's Dhrystone performance is almost at par with my Core 2 Quad Q8400.
Also, i'm not sure that either AMD or VIA has been posting 10% performance increments year over year.

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]Chris A.[/nom]There’s no word from Intel on whether this platform supports LTE, though the company does update Clover Trail+’s cellular modem to the HSPA+-compatible XMM 6360.[/citation]
Anand Lal Shimpi:

On the baseband side, Intel is finally updating its very old XMM 6260 silicon to XMM 6360. The update brings 3GPP release 9 support, with 42Mbps DC-HSPA+ (Category 24) support, as well as HSUPA category 7 (11.5 Mbps). The XMM 6360 still ships with a pentaband transceiver. While this is still shy of enabling LTE, for many of the world markets where dual-carrier support is important this is a huge step forward for Intel in the baseband department - finally bringing the company up to our baseline expectations.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6790/intels-clover-trail-dualcore-cpu-and-graphics-unveiled-at-mwc-2013

Most "emerging" markets don't have LTE yet, so it's a non-issue mostly. The RAZR i is a UK exclusive, i believe, so i guess it's a problem there.

p.s. Emerging smartphone markets, not just emerging markets. India and China are the biggest phone markets right now.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]Intel is always trying to do too many things with Atom, and always failing trying to do them.Trying to go all the way from cell phones to low power PCs, with tablets along the way has rendered the processor inferior in many scenarios.ARM derivatives still show big advantages in very low power devices, and AMD's Bobcat/Jaguar destroy Atom in performance, and with their lower power use and better performance than Bobcat, Jaguar will be much more attractive on tablets. Atom seems best suited for applications below Bobcat, but above ARM. I'm just not sure anything is there in terms of a market.[/citation]

Someone is far out of the loop with current Atom progress 😉

 

[hytecgowthaman]

gpu slower.

 

[hytecgowthaman]

but processor speed is good how much cache it has.

 

[claudia30590]

This is really a very big new for all the intel lovers ....especially those who are planning to buy it soon, they can wait for it.
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