ARM: Intel Cannot Match Us in Power Consumption
ARM has something to say.
Just ahead of the opening of the Fall Intel Developer Forum, ARM popped up in the news with a note that Intel still has work to do to improve the power consumption of its smartphone processors. It is a rather short note, but it is a reiteration of ARM's message that Intel cannot quite match ARM's architecture as far as power consumption is concerned.
This time, it is ARM's vice president of marketing and strategy, Noel Hurley, quoted by Digitimes as saying Intel's only advantage at this time is its huge monetary backing, while ARM has to rely on an armada of ARM chip makers to compete with Intel, including Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Texas Instruments.
Intel has its first smartphone processor out, the Z2460, but it would be an exaggeration to describe the processor as a chip that got Intel's foot into the door to the smartphone market. So far, it may not be much more than a beachhead that, however, showed that Intel can crank out capable silicon in relatively short time. In the past, Intel has always been most successful when it was under pressure and the 22 nm product generation of the Atom SoC will be the first serious indicator how competitive Intel will be in the smartphone processor market.

But seriously, watch out, ARM, Intel has so much money and R&D capability it can force its way into any market it wants to. Who's heard of Ultrabooks a year ago?
But seriously, watch out, ARM, Intel has so much money and R&D capability it can force its way into any market it wants to. Who's heard of Ultrabooks a year ago?
I wonder how long it'll take for intel to say "NOPE" ...
But seriously, what are the performance/watt numbers for those?
At least it's going to put some pressure on development.
some arm and mips cpus contain hundreds of cores, and an amd core would certainly beat an arm core
wrong, AMD can win on power consumption. their CPU's have the highest power consumption of all, noone can match them, unless intel brings back netburst with 8 cores.
Intel : 8.6GHZ Pentium 4, 16 core edition! unmatched heating and power requirements!
Intel: "We didn't even care about competing with you on a power consumption term to begin with, get over it."
ARM: "I TROLLED U! U BUTTHURT!!! DERP DERP DERP!"
arm better stop barking because intels just gonna bite them in the ass harder. Im not trying to bash arm, theyre power consumption/performance is always getting better with every generation by alot. its just that, like a commenter already said, intel has so much money and smart people with them that they can invade any industry and be a success.