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I was quite impressed with some of the A57's geekbench subtests scores but it is obvious now that this performance comes at a thermal price. A A57-A53 Octal looks a big.little combo too far for planar 20nm, looks like they will need FinFETs to make this work. Meanwhile Merrifield and Moorefield now available for those who want a bug-free 64-bit android experience .

Tablets were a bit of a mile race for Intel but phones look like they will be a marathon but it has the long relentless roadmap to take advantage of any ARM/foundry missteps every year and the 64-bit market has only just begun so there is everything to play for in the future for those who have the imagination to envisage it. Also there should be far less legacy software issues for x86 at 64-bit. Game on !