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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by PaulHoule on Friday April 29, 2016 @08:30PM (#11599659)
I think that's a misunderstanding.

Atom chips have always been crippled to keep them from cannibalizing more expensive chips.

Skylake is a fine tablet chip, in fact, that's really what Skylake is good for. They are probably producing them in high enough numbers now that they can give up on Atom.

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Re:Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartph... by cfallin on Saturday April 30, 2016 @01:43PM (#11602631)
Atom isn't crippled so much as it's developed from a very simple (small, low-power, in-order execution) baseline and so hasn't had the time to reach the level of performance maturity and sophistication that the "big cores" (Haswell, Skylake, etc) have. If Intel had the ability to get Skylake performance in an Atom power envelope, they would.
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