So what does Intel have to compete against Kryo? A delayed & slower Broxton? You'd start hoping that Qualcomm moved from TSMC to Intel instead of Samsung.
Qualcomm moved to Samsung, not to Intel. If they did, Intel would have baked into their financial guidance pretty material revenue from Qualcomm foundry business.
They have Core M... Only they needs to force to use it on the IPhones to get some izombies to use it...And love Intel since it would be the heart of that device... Sadly for them, Apple has other plans...They do not have anything to compete with Kryo. However their current strategy is to compete on the low-end side with SoFIA and getting their modems into high-end aka iPhone. And even Broxton might get one or the other design win assuming Intel extends the counter revenue program.
Continuum for Phones is a feature Microsoft announced back in April, which essentially turns your Windows 10 smartphone into a desktop PC, allowing you to use a mouse and keyboard with apps scaled up as if they were running on a Windows 10 desktop. Since the announcement however, Microsoft hasnt really shown off the feature in detail. Luckily, I recently had the opportunity to take a closer look at Continuum for Phones, and from it have gathered a few first impressions.
The potential of Continuum is amazing:
I fail to see the appeal. A mid-range phone and notebook combo will offer you a better experience than a phone with a display and keyboard.
1 mobile device that you could take anywhere (like any other phone) and has the capability to power a desktop, getting the job done fine for people that only do web browsing, office and casual gaming (preferably with a proper docking station at home/work, +mouse/keyboard/display of course).
Just because a 2-device approach offers a better experience that doesn't mean there's no room for an innovative product like this.
Hate to defend smartphones but we are doing things with them today we never thought possible a few years ago. Remmember a Broxton phone will be more powerful than a lot of low-end PCs out there.
If you need to carry all the peripherals with you it makes it less mobile than a laptop.
If you have to "hope" the peripherals will be available to you in different locations it makes it unreliable.
If you use it only at your home, you might as well save the money of the dock (and maybe some on the phone) and invest it in a compute stick (or similar cheap box / used PC...) or save the money for the monitor, dock, mouse and keyboard and spend it on a super cheap notebook/chromebook, this way your kids can play angry birds and you can have your phone while spending about the same amount.
I asked you where you see this amazing potential and didn't get a concrete answer. What you describe is a cool niche, not something with amazing potential.
Any SoC performs better when it's not thermally constrained, by squeezing a PC into a phone you aren't doing it any favors (performance wise).
The extra flexibility something like this provides has amazing potential for some people, even if it doesn't replace the more expensive desktop + phone (2-device) solution.
That's why the only real way that Intel wins is entering by only the Blackberry structure way. Keyboard and trackpad.I fail to see the potential. I can not imagine a situation, where i surprisingly would have a monitor, mouse and keyboard without having at least a tablet device with me, such that i would be forced to use my phone with all thermal constraints.
That is not amazing but extremely niche at best.
By several orders of magnitude, assuming we're talking about 2015 flagship phones, such as the Samsung Note 5, Galaxy S6, iPhone 6+, etc. The fastest CPU you could buy in 1995 was a 133 Mhz Pentium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5_(microarchitecture)#MMXAre phones as good as computers were, 20 years ago?
I fail to see the potential. I can not imagine a situation, where i surprisingly would have a monitor, mouse and keyboard without having at least a tablet device with me
The T100HA moves to Intel’s Cherry Trail Atom lineup which is the new 14 nm version of Atom. We first saw the x7 version of this in the Microsoft Surface 3, and ASUS is going with the quad-core x5-Z8500 model. The four cores have a base frequency of 1.44 GHz and a burst frequency of 2.24 GHz. The Scenario Design Power of this SoC is slightly lower than its x7 brother at just two watts. Graphics are Intel’s Gen 8 graphics with 12 execution units, and a frequency range of 200 to 600 MHz. This should be a pretty nice bump in performance over the outgoing Bay Trail model, and the 14 nm Atom should also increase battery life. ASUS claims that T100 can now get up to 12 hours on a single charge.
The tablet features an IPS display, and here it drops a bit of resolution over the old model but it also moves from a 16:9 to 16:10 aspect ratio, with the new model featuring a 1280x800 resolution. ASUS has also redesigned the keyboard dock, and the tablet now locks in with the help of neodymium magnets.
But I think where ASUS shows its strengths is the available storage and RAM, with the new model offering 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of eMMC storage as the only option. For the price of $299, the 10.1-inch tablet offers quite a bit of versatility and performance, and as is always the case with the Transformer Book lineup, the price also includes the detachable keyboard. Impressive stuff. The 1.28 lb tablet also features micro USB, micro HDMI, micro SD, and a USB Type-C port, albeit with just USB 3.0 speeds available, along with another USB 2.0 port on the keyboard dock.
The MeegoPad T07 features an Intel Atom x5-8300 Cherry Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. It supports 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, features a USB 2.0 port, HDMI port, microSD card slot, a micro USB port, and a headset jack. Gearbest and Geekbuying are taking pre-orders for the MeegoPad T07 for about $115.
MeegoPad also offers two more powerful models. Both the MeegoPad T05 and T06 feature Atom z5-8500 Cherry trail chips, 4GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, and the same ports found on the T07, with the addition of a USB 3.0 port. What sets the T06 apart from the T05 seems to be a 300 mAh battery in the T06, which should offer enough juice to keep the system running in the even to of a sudden loss of power (if you accidentally remove the power cable, for example), or while you unplug the PC stick and carry it to another display.
Shenzhen APEC Electronics also has product pages for the APM-D05i and APM-D05F, which have similar physical designs and specs to the MeegoPad PC sticks.
Up until now, most Windows-compatible PC sticks have feature Intel Atom Z3735F Bay Trail processors, up to 2GB of RAM and up to 32GB of storage. We’re expecting to see even more powerful models with Intel Core M chips in the future. But for now, it’s nice to see models with improved specs.
Chinese device maker Chuwi has been making dual OS tablets capable of running Android and Windows for a little while. Now the company has launched a new model sporting an Intel Atom x5-8300 Cherry Trail processor, Windows 10 and Android 5.1
The Chuwi Hi10 is available from AliExpress for about $250, and it has some pretty remarkable specs for a tablet that costs less than the price of an iPad mini 2.
Chuwi’s tablet is said to have a 10 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. It has a microSD card reader for up to 128GB of removable storage. And the tablet has 2MP front and rear cameras.
There's also this very expensive smartwatch of $1800 that will have Intel inside, hopefully not Quark.
Those updated CHT MeegoPad units had better have a 64-bit UEFI like the Tronsmart ARA X5 unit.MeegoPad also offers two more powerful models. Both the MeegoPad T05 and T06 feature Atom z5-8500 Cherry trail chips, 4GB of RAM, up to 64GB of storage, and the same ports found on the T07, with the addition of a USB 3.0 port. What sets the T06 apart from the T05 seems to be a 300 mAh battery in the T06, which should offer enough juice to keep the system running in the even to of a sudden loss of power (if you accidentally remove the power cable, for example), or while you unplug the PC stick and carry it to another display.