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Are there any mainstream phones than have or will use intel chipsets? Or are they not power efficient enough to get into the mobile market?
The baseband and radios. From what I understand Intel doesn't make a full solution that would work in the American market.
ASUS alone sold (if my memory isn't playing tricks on me) 8 million Zenfones last year. This year they are planing on making 1-3 million Zenfone 2 a month, depending on demand.It's not just a battle of AMD and Intel. Intel will get their ass's handed to them time after time... When they do finally get it right (if ever) and manage to sell a million or two chips, the profits probably wouldn't even scratch the surface...
They have been pretty much giving their mobile chips away. On cost they compete with the Mediateks and Rockchips of the world.My sense is that it is not their core business, and that market's amrgins are too slim. Iy's more of a matter of "won"t" rather than "Can't."
The Atom refresh is long overdo. Given how well BT has held up so far (I mean that non-sarcastically) I am very excited for next-gen Atom.
I agree with that. Though I do wish Microsoft could do some Apple magic and allow their OS to move up the tablet market. X86 Windows easily has the worst DPI scaling of any major OS, as desktop mode on a retina tablet is useless because even with a jacked DPI some elements don't scale. Compare that to Android where every element in the interface scales to the DPI, or an OSX that has a no hassle retina mode that doubles the size of everything, and Windows feels primitive.In the under-$100 Win8.1 tablet market, the quad-core 22nm BT-T Atoms have done some amazing things. My HP Stream 7 is great!
I agree with that. Though I do wish Microsoft could do some Apple magic and allow their OS to move up the tablet market. X86 Windows easily has the worst DPI scaling of any major OS, as desktop mode on a retina tablet is useless because even with a jacked DPI some elements don't scale. Compare that to Android where every element in the interface scales to the DPI, or an OSX that has a no hassle retina mode that doubles the size of everything, and Windows feels primitive.
I hope they fix that in Windows 10. For now Intel needs Android to move up the ladder.
Are there any mainstream phones than have or will use intel chipsets? Or are they not power efficient enough to get into the mobile market?
It really is bad. I had no idea. Just purchased my first laptop with a 1080 screen, which really is not that high-res nowadays...
And I see now why Windows laptops are often stuck with low-res screens. Either everything is tiny, or blurry. Granted, programs are getting better (some are fine and look fantastic, some not so much) and all the Metro apps are perfect. Microsoft's problem is that nobody wants to create metro apps.