Intel Corp (INTC)

[DavidA2]

Perhaps you and WBMW would like to answer these questions then:

-How then, do you make of Atom's competitiveness?
-Why are the cores significantly bigger than competition?
-Despite the reasoning that "larger logic" used in Intel's designs allow higher clock speed and performance, Atoms are substantially behind in performance. Again, how?

Shouldn't it either be denser than competition or much faster?

-Would you guys say Intel has
a. Absolute process lead but terrible design
b. Absolute process lead and ok design but x86 is a significant hindrance
c. Design is ok and x86 isn't an hindrance but process is lot worse than they say it is

It is beyond the fact that manufacturers simply do not want to use Intel products unless they are literally paid to do it. But that they can't even get a competitive product at the high-end at all.

Core M costs 10x versus bleeding edge ARM chips but perform not much higher. Even with the same process having premium pricing almost always ends up in a better product.

How is it despite costing 10x versus the competition and using "absolute kick ass" process end up mere 20-30% better?