Oh, I'm not saying it's not impressive. I'm blown away that this things are so close to my macbook air 2012 in performance.
Just that saying, "imagine if they released it in 20nm" doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day, at least to me, and today. When and if they do it, we'll have another thread like this commenting it .
AMD could be saying the same thing for the better part of last decade and still wouldn't help them.
Every design has it's compromises. Apple's core for example has to scale from a 4'7" device, to an 9'7" one. and they are a relatively small part of it's die, because they cram A LOT of things in there which don't necessarily help directly in performance (besides gpu). and yes, I know A8X it's different than an A8, by scaled up I meant that technically, the core design is the same, only that they added one more.
I didn't know that there were already smartphone announced with tegra k1, or Denver, but we have yet to see how would that scale. It's not as easy to scale down a design while maintaining it competitive. If it where, Intel would have already crammed some design in smartphones with good performance and call it a day.
Just that saying, "imagine if they released it in 20nm" doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day, at least to me, and today. When and if they do it, we'll have another thread like this commenting it .
AMD could be saying the same thing for the better part of last decade and still wouldn't help them.
Every design has it's compromises. Apple's core for example has to scale from a 4'7" device, to an 9'7" one. and they are a relatively small part of it's die, because they cram A LOT of things in there which don't necessarily help directly in performance (besides gpu). and yes, I know A8X it's different than an A8, by scaled up I meant that technically, the core design is the same, only that they added one more.
I didn't know that there were already smartphone announced with tegra k1, or Denver, but we have yet to see how would that scale. It's not as easy to scale down a design while maintaining it competitive. If it where, Intel would have already crammed some design in smartphones with good performance and call it a day.
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