Replies to post #139480 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[wbmw]

The new Exynos is indeed 14nm finfet. But only 20% faster and 35% more efficient than the Galaxy Note 4 with the 5433.

And of course, 20nm got them about 0% in terms of performance. They did get a 16-23% power reduction, however (depending on the frequency, but let's call it ~20%).

I expect the power curve might mean that they can get to 2.3GHz for the same 7.4W of power for the quad A57 cores, or run them at 1.9GHz, and dissipate only 4.8W. I'll also note that they dissipate 4.4W at 1.6GHz on the 5433, so you're still seeing about a 20% performance increase at similar power (1.6 to 1.9GHz).

All and all, about what we expected ("meh"). 14nm is not +2 process nodes better than 28nm. At best, it's +1 node, but even then it falls a bit short than what we saw going from 40nm to 28nm.

[wbmw]

By the way, Galaxy S6 looks like a great phone, but this is the one I'm looking at for my upgrade.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9012/htc-launches-one-m9-handson

I still like the aesthetics of HTC better. Guess I'll be giving Qualcomm a share of my money, this round.

[Andy Grave]

.....from neolib on SI

....how did Intel manage to lose Window sockets?

Acer unveils smartphones at MWC, including one that will run Win10 at some point:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2397475/mwc-acer-liquid-m220-is-a-eur79-windows-10-ready-smartphone

Despite being a good Intel partner, it is Qualcomm (and low end 200's at that) and MediaTek who land the phone sockets. The windozs phones are pretty low end...