There have been rumors that INTEL has been testing their Core M series in phones as well. It could be a reality, but I would think overall performance would suffer due to TDP and thermal restrictions. Never mind the cost issue...
This article does a pretty good job of summing up why that doesn't make any sense: http://www.fool.com/investing/gener...-x3-wont-power-a.aspx?source=iaasitlnk0000003
Anyway, Windows Phone is dying off. Microsoft are more focused on their iOS and Android apps these days.
hmm, it's actually starting to pick up more, more people are moving away from iPhones and are picking up Lumia (or alternative brand) if not Android and MS released a few new Lumias as well recently. Lack of apps is the only downfall so far that I've seen, my wife has one and I really like it and may move away from Android soon myself.Anyway, Windows Phone is dying off. Microsoft are more focused on their iOS and Android apps these days.
There have been rumors that INTEL has been testing their Core M series in phones as well. It could be a reality, but I would think overall performance would suffer due to TDP and thermal restrictions. Never mind the cost issue...
hmm, it's actually starting to pick up more, more people are moving away from iPhones and are picking up Lumia (or alternative brand) if not Android and MS released a few new Lumias as well recently. Lack of apps is the only downfall so far that I've seen, my wife has one and I really like it and may move away from Android soon myself.
https://www.petri.com/paul-thurrotts-short-takes-microsoft-earnings-special-edition-2Suffice to say, things arent going well for Windows phone. Apologists will point out that Microsoft is only implementing the strategy it laid out in July 2015 when it capitulated the smart phone market, and will further claim that there were no surprises here. But I find it remarkable how quickly Microsofts phone business has declined, going from next to nothing (10.5 million Lumias sold in Q4 2014) to literally nothing (4.5 million this past quarter) in just one year. Put another way, just 1.1 percent of all smart phones sold in the previous quarter were Windows phones. I think its time to call this one.
That sounds... implausible. Where did these rumours come from?
From Intel's Kirk Skaugen.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/02/intel-s-core-m-processors-are-being-tested-in-phones/
Wow, that's pretty crazy. Thanks!
Round peg, square hole. Core m would get slaughtered by a good ARM chip. Intel sucks at anything related to phones.
That sounds... implausible. Where did these rumours come from?
Well there is already a z8700 phone sdk, z8700 is 2w sdp, core m is 3w sdp, they are not far away from each other.
Round peg, square hole. Core m would get slaughtered by a good ARM chip. Intel sucks at anything related to phones.
Well there is already a z8700 phone sdk, z8700 is 2w sdp, core m is 3w sdp, they are not far away from each other.
To be fair, when bt came out we all agreed it was a good cpu that just needed more igp power, ct is just that.
Most of the problem was on notebook processors because of lower clocks.
From what have been seeing the tablet ones look good.
I do agree the delays where too much.
Dont speak for everyone. Between the two, I would strongly prefer more cpu power than igp. I mean, the cpu is so weak, you cant really utilize the increased gpu power.
Well BT was a OK cpu, too little igp, check the first pages of this thread. IGP was the weak point.
Personally i have a Z3735D tablet and i like the little thing, cpu alone can turbo for a very long time +1h, and when gaming it does not throttle, it just the turbos are disabled so its base clock. But it has just 1280x800 screen and a dead power controller so there is not battery indicator, so i was thinking about getting a Chuwi Hi8 Pro as replacement as they are dirt cheap and has some nice features, except for the UEFI32.
So when i look at the Z8300 looks good because it has a boost to the base clocks, Cherry Trail cant mantain base clocks?
Maybe Intel went too far on the first iteration of 14nm by adding 4 times the EUs and thats causes power problems and the cpu cant fully use it either. maybe it should have been 10.
Onda V919 Air seem to be running 64 bit uefi, finally...
I had one of the Winbook tablets (it is dead now because of a faulty mini-usb charger), and for the price, I thought it was a decent device as well. But I guess we will just have to agree to disagree. In the year I had it, there were plenty of times I wished the cpu was faster, but never even thought about the igpu. To be fair, maybe a better gpu will help where it felt the slowest, like loading intensive web pages, but I think that is primarily a cpu problem.
BT was a crear generation. It was near Core performance... Sadly CT ruined all that advancement and to make it worse is expensive.
Kill me, but still I think that if nVIDIA ION didn't died due Intel greedness, would help even more now than that Intel chiamera to get better iGPU with less power, but ruining all of them in one shot
Intel engineers have begun landing support for the next-gen "Apollolake" SoC within Coreboot and support for the initial development board.
Apollolake (Apollo Lake) is Intel's 14nm SoC for low-cost PC/notebooks, and surely Chromebooks. Apollolake uses the Goldmont CPU core and Skylake Gen9 derived graphics. Apollolake is the successor to Braswell. Apollo Lake systems will be available later in 2016.
...More than likely this early Coreboot work around Apollolake is for reading support for next-gen Google Chromebooks. More details on Intel's Apollo Lake for Linux as they surface.
Two new Atom processors for tablets surfaced in Intel's product database. Atom x5-Z8550 and x7-Z8750 are quad-core systems on a chip, based on "Cherry Trail" design and manufactured on the latest 14nm technology. Similar to previously released x5-Z8350 model, the x5-Z8550 and x7-Z8750 have a new core stepping, that enables higher burst frequencies, and it fixes two GPU defects, described by Intel as "Alpha Blending and ASTC graphics errata". The chips also had the graphics unit re-branded to HD 400 on the Atom x5 series and to HD 405 on the x7 series. The Atom processors are now listed as launched in the Intel product database.
Ok...Apollo Lake close to launch?
Intel Begins Landing Apollolake Support Within Coreboot
www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Apollolake-Coreboot
Braswell support was added late June 2015.
Meanwhile, Cherry Trail gets a new core stepping running at higher clocks.
Intel launches more Atom "Cherry Trail" SoCs
www.cpu-world.com/news_2016/2016021701_Intel_launches_more_Atom_Cherry_Trail_SoCs.html