ARM NEEDS A LEG UP

摘要

According to Future Horizon's Mike Bryant, Medfield outperforms an ARM Cortex-A9. ARM's hopes for the near future now lie in the combination of the faster A15 and the lower-power A7, rather than the older A9 architecture, which will help those companies that do not want to shift from the widely available ARM cores to Intel's single-sourced offering.Bryant warns that problems could hit ARM and its customers next year: "In 2013, Intel will have the 22nm. low-power process.They will have a processor that outperforms and out-powers anything that ARM has. ARM has a problem here. ARM has its ecosystem - companies such as Qualcomm who are effectively locked into them... But Intel will take part of this market because they have the technology."