So Intel is finally getting into the market, and all it can do is be half as good as the best ARM chips right now? Besides the Javascript test, which is almost irrelevant by now, being such a simple test, it scores about half as S3 and Tegra 3 in pretty much all the other benchmarks, including for how smooth the browsing is and its GPU performance.
Even if Atom was "as good" as high-end ARM chips now, which it isn't, it would still be nearly impossible to take any market away from ARM. You can't take market away from an absolute incumbent with 98% of the market when at best you're just as good, but usually half that.
I also don't see them mentioning pricing, but the Atom package should cost somewhere in the $80-$100 range. High-end ARM chips cost maybe $35 at most.
The only reason the Xolo is somewhat fairly priced is because it's made by a noname company. It's like worse than being made by ZTE.
Err the intel chip is usually among the 2nd and 3rd best and it has 2 fewer cores. And far from "50%" slower. Its rather close to them.
I find that pretty good. In fact, Anandtech found that pretty good as well.
You seem to be looking mostly at the GPU scores, and intel doesn't make those GPUs.
Switching to a faster GPU in the future would solve that. Not that the current GPU they use is any slow anyway, there will not be a single Android app lagging on this.
And all this with a crappy assembler as you said.
It's also running GB vs ICS. ICS makes some of the benchmarks a lot faster (specially your favorite, the webkit bench ;-)
I'm also surprised by the exposure time setting. I've no idea how useable it is on a phone but I always wanted that, at least to be able to try it.
I heard the argument that Intel has a much better manufacturing process. Die size reduction is the only way they can compete with ARM. But first they need to get their foot in the door.
Even if Atom was "as good" as high-end ARM chips now, which it isn't, it would still be nearly impossible to take any market away from ARM. You can't take market away from an absolute incumbent with 98% of the market when at best you're just as good, but usually half that.
I also don't see them mentioning pricing, but the Atom package should cost somewhere in the $80-$100 range. High-end ARM chips cost maybe $35 at most.
The only reason the Xolo is somewhat fairly priced is because it's made by a noname company. It's like worse than being made by ZTE.