Orange San Diego: Intel brings the x86 vs. ARM smartphone war to Europe(extremetech.com)

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Orange San Diego: Intel brings the x86 vs. ARM smartphone war to Europe

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/130201-orange-san-diego-intel-brings-the-x86-vs-arm-smartphone-war-to-europe

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The problem with Intel is the lack of ability to customize the SoC. Intel has run NVidia out of the chipset market and has incentives to do the same in the mobile market.

ConstantineXVI14 年前

You can't customize the SoCs from nVidia/Samsung/TI/Qualcomm either.

protomyth14 年前

but NVidia, Samsung, TI, Qualcomm, and Apple can build custom ARM SoC.

Symmetry14 年前

And thousands of other companies too, right down to little-old 90 person Ember where I work.

blibble14 年前

there's not really a war at all, is there?

ARM are completely dominant in this market.

codedivine14 年前

ARM are completely dominant .. currently. If Intel does manage to execute on their roadmap, then I wouldn't be so sure.

ippisl14 年前

Intel is getting pretty close. in a benchmark of a medfield phone, battery capacity for web browsing was just 20% lower than the best android phone benchmarked[1].

And medfield still uses 32nm process,not the latest finfet 22nm process intel is so proud of.

And the orange san-diego is also priced reasonably at $300.

So this looks like a fair fight.

[1]http://hexus.net/mobile/news/android/38501-intel-based-smart...

EwanToo14 年前

The real question is "How little are Intel willing to sell the CPU in this phone for?".

A fairly up to date Cortex-A8 ARM CPU can be had for under $5 [1] and as impressive as Intel's manufacturing base is, their profits are based on selling CPUs at 50-100x higher prices than this.

Whatever happens, I think the coming battle between generic ARM chips and x86 is going to slash Intel's profitability.

[1] - http://www.ti.com/lsds/ti/dsp/arm.page?DCMP=TIHeaderTracking...

dbcooper14 年前

Don't underestimate the value of Intel's manufacturing dominance.

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