Intel to break Moore's Law to get Atom competing with ARM

http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/intel-to-break-moores-law-to-get-atom-competing-with-arm-20110411/

by theandym • 15 years ago

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iwwr• 15 years ago

If taking the market away from ARM were that easy, Intel would have done it already.

ryanklee• 15 years ago

"Now that people no longer want to own a netbook" -- FTA.

What? That's pretty silly. I don't have any data(n.b.), but my suspicion is that there are many people who still want netbooks. I am one of them. I was just in the Apple store and telling my girlfriend how few use cases I could imagine for myself with an iPad/Tablet. Use in the kitchen as a screen to either read recipes from or watch a show on while cooking was really the only one that came to mind. I imagine iPads lying about on surfaces much more than actively being used. They sacrifice versatility for portability of a certain type. They aren't for instance easier to carry about than a netbook, but since they are all screen they are more ready-to-hand(-and-eyes). On the flip-side, I can't sit in a coffee shop and hack on a tablet. And really almost anytime I'm in front of a computer I might want to do work which means that a tablet is really more restrictive for me than it's worth (for certain values of worth, of course). I understand that there indeed are uses for tablets but those uses aren't totally synonymous with the uses of a netbook.

But this is just me. Has the netbook market really been that devastated by the iPad?

joebadmo• 15 years ago

I agree with you on tablets in general. Which is what makes me sad about tablets taking all the oxygen, even to the point of ChromeOS apparently getting touch functionality (which seems like a bad idea for many reasons). As a CR-48 owner, I'm actually looking forward to ChromeOS notebooks that are just a bit faster and have just a bit more memory.

My biggest abstract concern is that we're giving up so much of our input bandwidth with tablets. To me, the presence of a portion of the hardware dedicated to input says something about a device's purpose, which is to participate in the exchange of ideas. For a tablet, the purpose seems to be to manipulate the device, which it fulfills wonderfully and delightingly, but strikes me as ultimately stifling and restrictive.

Intel to break Moore's Law to get Atom competing with ARM

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