Intel CEO Takes Shot at Apple's A7
Intel’s new CEO Brian Krzanich stood behind his company’s products yesterday when fielding questions from analysts.
Mobile is proving to be pretty big business and with Apple’s latest chip, the A7 already deployed in the latest round of iDevices, Intel will be facing some stiff competition in that space. Even so, Intel’s new CEO Brian Krzanich, stood behind his company’s products yesterday when fielding questions from analysts.
“If you take a look at things like transistor density and you compare, pardon the pun, apples-to-apples and you compare, say, the A7 to our Bay Trail, which is a high density 22 nanometer technology, then our transistor density is higher or more dense than the A7 is.” Krazinich said. ”It's a good product...but we do see the Moore's Law advantage from 28 to 22 nanometer as an example, when you compare dense technologies to dense technologies.”
That may be, but Apple’s A7 chip is the first 64-bit processor in a consumer smart phone, and that’s also an ecosystem where, despite some market share losses to Android, the Cupertino-based tech giant has had little trouble competing. By producing their own silicon instead of buying from one of the other fabs, Apple's been able to tailor their hardware and their software and cut out more than a few middlemen.
While it's unlikely that the latest line of Intel Atom chips or their low-power Haswell processors will be convincing Apple to convert from producer to consumer anytime soon, the fight is still on for general market share for tablets and Ultrabooks.
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bystander Got to love the headline hype only to see mild, level headed responses to their own product.Reply -
stevejnb "some market share losses to Android"Reply
Some? Android controls 80% of the smartphone market. MS only has about 10% more of the desktop market and they've been widely dubbed a monopoly for over a decade.
"Apple's been able to tailor their hardware and their software and cut out more than a few middlemen"
Yikes, usually one of the biggest advantages of cutting out the middleman is being able to avoid giving said middleman a cut of your profits. I guess they evidently aren't using this cutting-out-the-middleman to end up charging the user less. Then again, Samsung is in the same boat on this...
As per the article's content, is this a shock? One way or another, Apple is competing. This guy isn't even being all that derogatory, just pointing out some technological advantages his company has over Apple's. -
tipoo We aren't buying these chips on our own, they come in smartphones that are all pretty much priced the same at the high end. The density doesn't matter to us. What matters is the performance and the power draw, both of which the A7 does surprisingly well in. Intel will need to step up its game here, just being competitive isn't enough to switch manufacturers over, they have to be by and large the performance per watt champion as well as equivalently priced.Reply -
ingtar33 chipzilla still can't quite compete with ARM in the mobile cpu market, and it smarts.Reply -
opmopadop "By producing their own silicon instead of buying from one of the other fabs"Reply
I thought Samsung was making the A7 chips? -
cmi86 So the question I obviously have to ask is who did apple rip off for the A7...because you know they did...Reply
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cmi86 So the question I obviously have to ask is who did apple rip off for the A7...because you know they did...Reply
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none12345 "So the question I obviously have to ask is who did apple rip off for the A7...because you know they did..."Reply
They didnt rip anyone off. They leased the design from ARM. Thats how ARM works, they design a whole range of cpu blocks, and then lease out the design to anyone who wants it.
Thats why ARM chips are in everything, well everything that doesn't require a beefy cpu. From washing machines to phones.