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re: If they were going to have a 20nm processor, they'd have been shouting from the rooftops about it, just as they were with the modem, IMO.

They keep things rather close to their chests, practically on the Apple side of the spectrum, but I agree it looks unlikely they'll have 20nm reaching the customers in 2014.

I think they are due a refresh of the Krait architecture though. It has the same fetch and decode width as the ARM A15 and a shorter pipeline and can work with a faster clock and use up less power - but the ARM A15 is 20% faster at the same frequency. I don't understand why that is happening, both of them are probably doing something a bit wrong which means there is probably room for a reasonable sized improvement without pushing the power envelope.