Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed

Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by lawlessone on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:09AM (#17826219)

>Intel are still ahead in low power mobile CPU race,

I never met a person with a smart phone that uses an intel chip. They probably exist but i know none.

Apple aren't using them. Samsung aren't.. HTC nope.. Google pixel nope...

Intel basically sold off/scuttled their mobile division right before the iphone took off.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by Nightshaxx on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:22AM (#17826614)

I think it's referring to laptops. That said I had the ASUS Zenfone 2 and the performance seemed alright, but certain apps didn't work because of the architecture difference, most notably Pokemon Go for the whole time it was popular (although it's probably for the better that I missed that whole craze).

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by binomialxenon on Thursday August 23, 2018 @02:01PM (#17829348)

I had a Zenfone 2 for a while too, performance and battery life were both pretty good. Thing was super unreliable though, not sure for what reason.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by lawlessone on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:58AM (#17826839)

oh yeah i forgot laptops.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by KozmoNau7 on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:39AM (#17826349)

I meant "mobile" as in laptop CPUs, I've edited my post to clarify.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by lawlessone on Thursday August 23, 2018 @08:59AM (#17826842)

My apologies, you're right about laptops.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by vel0city on Thursday August 23, 2018 @04:38PM (#17830508)

FWIW, I owned an ASUS Zen Phone 2 which contained an Atom x86 processor. It worked pretty well. I sold it to a friend of a friend who I think still uses it today. That said, that processor line was discontinued.

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Re:Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Com... by bocklund on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:27AM (#17826300)

I think “mobile” was supposed to refer to laptops, not phones or tablets.

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