Intel Says it Will Out-Wrestle ARM in Power Usage

[Travis Beane]

[citation][nom]wildfox[/nom]ARM is improving also, dual-cores are coming. They have GPU integration, at least the Snarpdragon has it and it's a year old (maybe AMD gpu). And don't forget the radio integration, intel will need that too.[/citation]
I think my Cowon S9 (mp3 player) is a 500MHz dual core.
It's a bit old.
It's ARM based.

Come on Intel, let's see what you got!

 

[eddieroolz]

While Intel's been good with Atom's power usage, the inherent nature of x86 leaves me to doubt that Intel can do what it claims to here.

 

[feeddagoat]

ARM is improving also, dual-cores are coming. They have GPU integration, at least the Snarpdragon has it and it's a year old (maybe AMD gpu). And don't forget the radio integration, intel will need that too.

Interesting you say that,Just saw this on Bit-tech


"Intel Confirms Infineon Buy"
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/08/31/intel-confirms-infineon-buy/1

 

[Guest]

There was an interesting article posted here perhaps 9 months ago about CISC vs. RISC computing and the various tradeoffs. Ultimately, in the desktop space, the conclusion was that RISC was a bit better (maybe 2x) - but the development expertise wasn't all there and a 2x gain wasn't enough to drive scale.

In the mobile space, though, a 2x gain means A LOT. A lot more than on the desktop, where you can kind of trade off performance and power. In mobile, battery technology is what it is - you can't just add power. In that environment, if RISC really has an approximate 2x generic performance advantage, allocable to power, computational speed or whatever - then Intel will have to jimmy their platform around substantially to be competitive. Cool if they do it, but it means a really complex design and possibly manufacturing process. We'll see.

There is a certain elegance to using the "natural" solution to a problem. Given how much mobile stuff is already optimized for ARM, Intel is amusingly behind the curve on software - just like they retained a powerful lead in desktop in part for the same reasons.

 

[the_wolf88]

Are we going to be able to use x86 software on mobile phones ?

 

[h82run]

Hopefully this translates into more efficient processors for laptops as well.

 

[Guest]

What is funny is that ARM came from DEC which Intel bought and sold. Intel and ARM have a vry interesting realtionship. There is an ARM cpu in the Intel SSD. ARM will not die though. What is going to happen is they will get some of the high end market and maybe Apple will use their CPUs

 

[hector2]

Based upon recent tech web site power measurements comparing Atom vs ARM, Intel is making good on their predictions