Intel Corp (INTC)

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Really, I can't understand how you can defend what is very clearly a lazy, half-baked effort from Intel with respect to Atom.

Remember it has to double up in micro-servers so performance/power is the overwhelming requirement not absolute performance and it's very competitive in that respect.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/11/02/intel-corps-upcoming-denverton-microserver-chip-lo.aspx

Broxton will have later ISA extensions as well as SHA ones which should beef up its GB3 benchmark which so many place inordinate store in. Once they also make it triple-issue in the future it will open up a big performance increase, it's there to be tapped and adding back SMT will also be useful. Like I said before I reckon an eight-core Broxton will be very competitive at the top-end and I reckon it will be efficient enough to get away with it i.e. not excessive throttling and they have had enough lead time to knock one up for next year. The 14nm Sofia will have the latest 7460 modem which should make it very competitive especially on price.