Intel going Android?

[s44]

I guess there have been stories about this before, but until I saw the upcoming Acer Honeycomb tablet story today, it hadn't sunk in.

Could this go anywhere? Intel, as always, has the process advantage, but their need to keep all the legacy x86 stuff in every single chip makes efficiency questionable. Wonder how this will stack up against Tegra3.

 

[Puddle Jumper]

I guess there have been stories about this before, but until I saw the upcoming Acer Honeycomb tablet story today, it hadn't sunk in.

Could this go anywhere? Intel, as always, has the process advantage, but their need to keep all the legacy x86 stuff in every single chip makes efficiency questionable. Wonder how this will stack up against Tegra3.

A single core Atom beats Tegra 2 so it's not hard to see them maintaining that advantage given that they will be accelerating Atom die shrinks and development in the future.

 

[pm]

I guess there have been stories about this before, but until I saw the upcoming Acer Honeycomb tablet story today, it hadn't sunk in.

Could this go anywhere? Intel, as always, has the process advantage, but their need to keep all the legacy x86 stuff in every single chip makes efficiency questionable. Wonder how this will stack up against Tegra3.

On the flip side, the x86 compilers are very good. It might be a lot of legacy junk, but at least it's extremely well understood legacy junk.


Do you have any links to benchmarks, Puddle Jumper?


* Not an Intel spokesperson *

 

[v8envy]

Not every single chip. Remember the Itanic? That had absolutely no x86 baggage at all, and was originally viewed by Intel as the legacy-free replacement for desktops, severs, etc.

 

[pm]

Not every single chip. Remember the Itanic? That had absolutely no x86 baggage at all, and was originally viewed by Intel as the legacy-free replacement for desktops, severs, etc.

I remember Itanium - and it hasn't sunk yet. I do circuit design and electrical validation testing of Itanium microprocessors. It was over-hyped initially but it's found a good niche and it's been interesting to work on over the years. When I was writing about compilers and x86, I had my mind a bit on Itanium and EPIC.



* Not a spokesperson for Intel Corp. *

 

[lothar]

I remember Itanium - and it hasn't sunk yet. I do circuit design and electrical validation testing of Itanium microprocessors. It was over-hyped initially but it's found a good niche and it's been interesting to work on over the years. When I was writing about compilers and x86, I had my mind a bit on Itanium and EPIC.



* Not a spokesperson for Intel Corp. *

The Itanic ship may not have sunk yet, but it clearly IS sinking.
Oracle, Microsoft, and a lot of other major companies have abandoned support.

 

[pm]

The Itanic ship may not have sunk yet, but it clearly IS sinking.
Oracle, Microsoft, and a lot of other major companies have abandoned support.

So it's been said. We have quite a few of us still working on it and a publicly published roadmap going out into the future, and the Poulson presentation at ISSCC was well received. Que sera, sera.