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Right, that solves the mystery of its performance profile, it's an in-order cpu like Itanium/Transmeta. On slide 14 the Bay Trail it is comparing against is the 1.6 Ghz N2910 Celeron which is 2/3 the clock speed of a high end Bay Trail so you have to add 50% to the white bars to get an apples to apples comparison and Denver looks not much better than A57 to me. Performance wise it looks an evolution to me for ARM not a revolution. Cherry Trail and A57 will be its competitors not Core-M e.g. they are claiming 50% greater SpecINT2K for a 10% higher clocked Denver than the A15 in 32-bit K1. This is not going to bother any Core clocked 1.5 GHz or over and remember Core goes up to 4.4 GHz now. At 2.5 GHz and 7-issue Denver also has very little growth potential in either direction. Sorry, it might be a step up for ARM but it's a big yawn by x86 standards.