Replies to post #129705 on Intel Corp (INTC)

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If you ask an engineer to design a camel and then enter it in a
horse race and it doesn't win you don't blame the engineer.

This. And stated better than what I had.

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If you ask an engineer to design a camel and then enter it in a horse race and it doesn't win you don't blame the engineer.

Why did Bay Trail come in at 102mm^2 even with:

* A better/denser process (we all agree Intel's 22nm process should be denser than anything on TSMC 28nm, all things equal)
* No connectivity/comms
* Inferior GPU performance to its contemporaries
* No integrated sensor hub

Note that Snapdragon 800, with similar CPU performance, better GPU performance, integrated connectivity/comms, integrated sensor hub, etc. all worked out to 118mm^2.

Also, even with a process lead, the Silvermont cores clocked to what? 2.4GHz? Krait 400 is roughly on-par at 2.26GHz in terms of performance and it seems that Snapdragon 805 will pack 2.5GHz variants, built again on 28nm HKMG.

I'm just really not sure what's going on here.