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Whatever happened to the Intel Architecture-based SoCs that Spreadtrum and Intel were supposedly developing together? They were scheduled for rollout in the second half of 2015, but the project has apparently slipped.

Before the end of this year, the new SoC that will actually come out of Spreadtrum will use ARM-based octa-cores. That processor will be made by using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s 16nm process technology.

But what about power consumption issues of IA? Isn’t that the whole reason why ARM is beating Intel?

Li thinks Spreadtrum can work with Intel to customize IA for power improvements. “Intel could fine tune it, and optimize it” for the mobile market. But that may be “three years from now,” Li said.


they will use tsmc 16nm for 2015 chips and intel 14nm for 2016? most probably not ia but arm.