Next year the Atom SoC will be far ahead of ARM not only in performance but also power efficiency. I won't mind my next iPad or iPhone having an Atom inside of them.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
"Not in handhelds, they ain't." It'll be a few years before they can compete with ARM.
I meant process technology. But with the latest Atom SoC...
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Originally Posted by jragosta
32 nm has been in production by SOME foundries. The ones that Apple uses have still not converted. For that matter, there are a lot of products in the market that are...
Quote:Originally Posted by SolipsismX That's not accurate at all. There are technical reasons that kept the iPhone 3GS, iPad, iPhone 4, iPad 2, iPhone 4S, and iPad (3) at the 45nm process. Apple has been testing the 32nm lithography...
Why Apple is sticking with Samsung and there ancient fabrication process? 45nm is so 2008. 32nm has been around since 2010 and yet Samsung continued to make Apple's chips with 45nm process. Imagine how much more energy efficient the iPad...