Intel is Stepping on the Gas for Atom CPU Plans

[fir_ser]

Real difference in Atom performance and power consumption will start to appear at 22nm manufacturing process, and at 14nm Atom will be really competitive with ARM.

 

[ramcoza]

3 years from 32nm to 14nm? I don't know if I'd trust Intel's atom's if they are gonna upgrade that fast.. Especially when they mess up their 2 year cycle so often, seemly. >>>

In Reality, Intel won't work on a new die process for every year.. I think there is 2 or 3 group of engineers. One will work on current process.. Next will work on next generation.. 3rd one on next to next generation.. So Intel takes almost 4 years to work on & introduce a die shrink. I still remember, last year Intel announced that they are working on 14nm process, which will enter market in 2013. This is all possible to them because of the resources they have.

 

[eddieroolz]

I guess they found out that AMD's fusion products are much, much faster.

 

[silverblue]

"Enhanced Bobcat" is likely to be a decent step up and Intel don't really have anything to fight it with performance-wise. They're also a little slow in migrating the Atom series over to 32nm; it really does look as if Intel were either complacent about Atom or not too concerned with improving it (after all, it doesn't make them too much money). When we do see 32nm Atoms, we'll be seeing Krishna and Wichita at 28nm, so strangely enough, AMD will be in the lead in terms of process, if briefly.