My point is that Russ should have been more careful in the way he wrote that sentence, because he simply can't know what exact performance level Silvermont will reach and can't know wher ARM CPUs will stand when first devices arrive on the market.
IMHO when you speculate that should be clear and his sentence doesn't look like a speculation, more like a statement of an established truth. And don't you think readers that base their investment on such an article want to sort facts from hypothesis?
I think Silvermont will be faster than most existing ARM SoC. But I'll wait until we see independent benchmarks to declare a winner :-)
I think current Atom chips are too underpowered, both CPU and GPU. Silvermont will improve that, but by how much, time will tell.
I agree with you that higher perf tablets are too bulky and with a too limited battery life.
That's why I think one should wait for Haswell tablets if one has enough money; that should be one month away. The alternative is to wait for Bay Trail but that will be Q3/Q4. This is also why I'm not sure Intel tablet number will double in Q2, but as I'm certainly not competent enough to make that belief a claim, I'll wait for Q2 figures :)
If clovertrail took 7% of the market when Windows was 7.4 with a total of 3M unit, it means Microsoft sold less than 200k Surface Pro, which would make it a complete failure. I guess you are wrong somewhere or I misunderstood you ;-)
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"What's wrong with Windows 8? It's RT, except not crippled. "
I like variety and Windows + Intel killed variety. RT would have brought some interesting disruption into the market if it had succeeded.
Among typical customers, who needs Windows 8 on a tablet? Compatibility is useless for applications that have not been designed with tablets in mind. And replacing a desktop PC with a tablet is just a dream now. So at this point, Windows 8 doesn't bring much to most tablet users.
BTW I only use Windows as a gaming OS and hopefully with Valve I won't ever need to boot into Windows in the future. I simply don't need Windows for any other task, be that at home or at work.
All of this is a very personal point of view, except that I think that some diversity is really beneficial to everyone in the longer term :-)
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Alex,
"Bigger problem: i86 architecture (so-called CICS, or complete instruction set) by design is less energy efficient than RISC (reduced instruction set). ARM chips are RISC."
As soon as performance increases the differences between CISC and RISC start to become less and less important.
OTOH for smallish CPU (think microcontrollers) the differences in decoder sizes and/or oddities in the x86 instruction set certainly matter.
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"In either case, WinRT is a negligible part of Windows tablet sales :) "
I definitely agree!
And that's a disapointment because I would have liked a real new OS contender against iOS and Android, as I don't consider Windows as a good OS for lower-end tablets. And MS breaking the Wintel model, in the same way as Intel is breaking it with Android was good in my humble opinion, things need to change, 30 years of Wintel is enough.
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Ashraf,
the IDC study you mention isn't the one that claims 7.5% market share for Windows tablets in Q1. IDC says it's 3.3% for Windows and 0.4% for Windows RT. So it's 10% of 3.7% not 10% of 7.5% according to the source you cite ;-)
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Very disappointing reply, you sound as a fanboy, I hadn't expected that from you :-(
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you seem to have some issues with people who are cautious with bold claims.
You seem to fail to understand I am a big fan of Intel. But not a blind fan as you seem to be. You are an insult to the intelligence of readers here.
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What does this have to do with what I wrote?
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My point is that Russ should have been more careful in the way he wrote that sentence, because he simply can't know what exact performance level Silvermont will reach and can't know wher ARM CPUs will stand when first devices arrive on the market.
IMHO when you speculate that should be clear and his sentence doesn't look like a speculation, more like a statement of an established truth. And don't you think readers that base their investment on such an article want to sort facts from hypothesis?
I think Silvermont will be faster than most existing ARM SoC. But I'll wait until we see independent benchmarks to declare a winner :-)
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I think current Atom chips are too underpowered, both CPU and GPU. Silvermont will improve that, but by how much, time will tell.
I agree with you that higher perf tablets are too bulky and with a too limited battery life.
That's why I think one should wait for Haswell tablets if one has enough money; that should be one month away. The alternative is to wait for Bay Trail but that will be Q3/Q4. This is also why I'm not sure Intel tablet number will double in Q2, but as I'm certainly not competent enough to make that belief a claim, I'll wait for Q2 figures :)
Intel: Silvermont - The ARM Killer [View article]
If clovertrail took 7% of the market when Windows was 7.4 with a total of 3M unit, it means Microsoft sold less than 200k Surface Pro, which would make it a complete failure. I guess you are wrong somewhere or I misunderstood you ;-)
Intel: Silvermont - The ARM Killer [View article]
So you've seen benchmarks, great! Would you be nice enough to share? ;-)
ARM Holdings: This Will End Badly For Shareholders [View article]
You definitely are getting ridiculous.
Plonk.
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Many NAS have ARM CPU. Another example is Baidu storage server. Or Boston Viridis servers. Of course these are not typical computing devices :)
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Too bad they don't apply the same rules to their chipsets then ;-)
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I like variety and Windows + Intel killed variety. RT would have brought some interesting disruption into the market if it had succeeded.
Among typical customers, who needs Windows 8 on a tablet? Compatibility is useless for applications that have not been designed with tablets in mind. And replacing a desktop PC with a tablet is just a dream now. So at this point, Windows 8 doesn't bring much to most tablet users.
BTW I only use Windows as a gaming OS and hopefully with Valve I won't ever need to boot into Windows in the future. I simply don't need Windows for any other task, be that at home or at work.
All of this is a very personal point of view, except that I think that some diversity is really beneficial to everyone in the longer term :-)
ARM Holdings: The Real Reason That It Ends Badly [View article]
"Bigger problem: i86 architecture (so-called CICS, or complete instruction set) by design is less energy efficient than RISC (reduced instruction set). ARM chips are RISC."
As soon as performance increases the differences between CISC and RISC start to become less and less important.
OTOH for smallish CPU (think microcontrollers) the differences in decoder sizes and/or oddities in the x86 instruction set certainly matter.
ARM Holdings: This Will End Badly For Shareholders [View article]
I definitely agree!
And that's a disapointment because I would have liked a real new OS contender against iOS and Android, as I don't consider Windows as a good OS for lower-end tablets. And MS breaking the Wintel model, in the same way as Intel is breaking it with Android was good in my humble opinion, things need to change, 30 years of Wintel is enough.
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Yes, at least for the Infineon modems they sell.
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the IDC study you mention isn't the one that claims 7.5% market share for Windows tablets in Q1. IDC says it's 3.3% for Windows and 0.4% for Windows RT. So it's 10% of 3.7% not 10% of 7.5% according to the source you cite ;-)
Ref: http://bit.ly/135Rn7S