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Catching up compared to the wimpy A8 cores they once had, sure, but still they are all under the AMD x86 Bulldozer level of performance never mind any Core with any serious clockspeed. Considering how flat out they are all going in terms of issue width and design exoticness on brand new architectures on a brand new 64-bit ISA the total end result is poor, remember in the 2000s AMD arguably slightly surpassed Intel's best when K7 and K8 came out, there is nothing on that level now from the ARMy and Intel can contain the threat with sku design/price manipulation at its leisure. Frankly a Power 8 desktop would be of more threat to Intel now than the entire efforts of the feeble ARMy. Yes, there will be parts of the ARMy above Atom but that is no big deal in the long run if Atom has profitable volume in its performance price range.