Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

I just find it interesting that you somehow expect Dublin to be this miracle design improvement with lower power and higher performance, even in spite of the smaller cache and the fact that it represents no major core improvement on the roadmap.

Here is another thing to ponder. If Dublin has a 256 KB L2
then it will access memory on average twice as often as a
regular A64. A memory interface burns a *lot* of power for
a mobile chip because it generally doesn't scale down in
frequency with the CPU and it never scales down in voltage.
AMD seems to be going in the wrong direction in its mobile
offerings. The Dothan has 2 MB L2, twice the size of the L2
in Intel's 90 nm desktop chip.