Intel Corp (INTC)

[chipguy]

I know you like to rag on Atom but it is still only a dual-issue cpu competing against triple-issue A57/A72 and hex-issue A9, there really is so much future potential scope to develop both Atom and Core

I think Intel should make Atom even leaner and lower power and redirect
it to replace the Quark (486? P5?) core for embedded control, IoT, and
also target cheap ass smart phones.

Intel should probably split Core into two similar uarchs, Core heavy and
Core light. Core heavy pushes single thread and FP performance and is
circuit optimized around higher frequency and power targets. This would
be used in high end laptop, desktop, workstation, and moderate core count
processors for low socket count servers for HPC and technical computing.
The Core light would have lighter FP resources and be circuit optimized
around moderate frequency and lower power targets. It would be used in
products for high end phones/phablets, tablets, low to medium end laptops,
and high core count chips for scale-out servers and high core count chips
for scale-up, high socket count, high RAS, commercial workload servers.