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Saturday, 29 December 2012

Intel Disappoints

Posted on 19:46 by Unknown
Intel to Offer Nine Types of Haswell Processors in Four Types of Packages - X-bit labs
Intel Haswell possibly delayed till June 2013
Just what Windows 8 needs to finish failing. First of all Haswell will probably not do anything to help the Windows 8 tablet situation. At 10W TDP (at best) it will make for either bad battery life or a heavy tablet.
Only the lowest end chip will work on tablets. Nothing Intel makes is competitive with Samsung's Exynos 5250. Intel even stooped so low as to brag about Clover Trail beating (barely) a Tegra 3. The problem for Intel is that a Tegra 3 is about half the performance of a Exynos 5250, and the even better 5400 will likely ship in quantity in 1Q13.

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