Intel Corp (INTC)

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You are exactly in point.
Intel is like an aircraft carrier. They decided to focus on lower power and they probably designed to low. Their competitors have boosted cores and clocks(raising power to the max) in order to remain competitive on performance with Intel.
Intel now has a lot of room to increase performance relative to competitors.
Many make a big point of single core performance of the A7 but doesn't the wide core A7's take advantage of parallelism in the code. How is this different then two cores. If Amdahl's Law applies, additional cores may not speed up apps with a lot of serialism.