Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis

Re:Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis by tkinom on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:46PM (#10162967)

"4.5W ultra-mobile Core M" - does it means if someone uses it with a typical 2250 mAh cell phone battery, it only last half hour?

That's a long way to catch up with ARM SOC, right?

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Re:Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis by nyc640 on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @09:56PM (#10163002)

That's the TDP of the chip, or the maximum amount of heat it can generate, not necessarily the power draw. Also, you were assuming it was running at full load 100% of the time. I don't have a source, but for comparison I believe Apple's AX chips have a TDP of ~2-3 W.

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Re:Intel Skylake Launch, with Architecture Analysis by sliken on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @10:01PM (#10163021)

Sounds somewhat higher than an arm. But take any phone and run it under a worst case load. Say a 3d game that supports multiplayer and GPS. When you run display, CPU, GPU, GPS and WAN flat out many phones don't last very long.

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