Article: The day Intel made a mistake on the iPhone... and paid for it 10 years later

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The day Intel got it wrong with the iPhone… to pay for it 10 years later

The day Intel got it wrong with the iPhone… to pay for it 10 years later © - elEconomista.es

Interesting reading.

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The article is wrong about one thing: efficiency. The most efficient consumer processors are from Intel. The ARM chips that tablets and mobile phones use are apparently efficient, but if we compare the performance/consumption ratio, we see that x86 beats ARM. The only reason a smartphone consumes so little is because its processors spend almost all their time idle. The thing is that when we think of x86, we think of putting Windows or Linux on it with very demanding programs and when we think of ARM we think of putting iOS or Android on it to run crappy apps. Use an ARM processor for intensive use and compare its results and consumption with a consumer Intel (you don't need to go to xeons). The Intel x86 eats the ARM. Lately I see things like clusters with dozens of Raspberry Pi where they advertise the benefits of their low consumption. People think "a Raspberry Pi consumes very little because it doesn't even need a heatsink and an i7 or a Xeon consumes a lot because it needs good cooling". A Broadcom BCM2836 (ARM v7) with 4 cores has a TDP of 3W. This ARM chip has a performance similar to a Pentium 4 at 2.6GHz in something like encoding h.264 video, so for the case, I use this Netburst processor as a reference. According to Passmark, a Pentium 4 at 2.6 GHz gets a score of 223. If we take an x86 chip from the current lot like a Core i7-6700K, it gets 10900 points with a tdp of 95W, which is 114 points per W. If we compare the ARM taking the score of the Netburst, we get 74 points per W. That is, that a homemade Intel processor ends up giving almost double the processing power per W, or what is the same, to perform the same work it needs practically half the energy that an ARM v7. The reasons why Intel has not ventured into the world of phones I don't know, but it has done so in the world of x86 tablets using its Core M. These processors get a score in Passmark of 3075 with a TDP of 4.5W, which translated comes to be 10 times less consumption for the same performance. Thus, Intel could fully enter the world of mobile telephony with the products it already has on the market; it doesn't need a big investment as it did 10 years ago. And let it be known that I don't have Intel shares, but this company has been innovating for almost 40 years and from ARM they have started to produce interesting things only in the last decade. It is normal that it has a great technological advantage. Another matter is that the company is well managed.

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Even a conspiracy theory linking the recent death of the CEO of Intel to the new round of layoffs makes a lot more sense than the mental straws I've seen on social media, where they link Intel's refusal to manufacture chips for Iphone below cost with their supposed current crisis.

You have to see the money Apple spends on lubricating the keyboards of journalists so that they talk about them, directly and indirectly.

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Apple is the messiah, and everything it touches is gold.
! And don't you dare refuse to serve it or you will suffer eternal punishment, even if you are the almighty Intel…
Salu2!

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Asus does mount Intel in some of its Zenfone, but I don't know what results it will give.

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