05-03-2016, 05:14 AM
(05-02-2016, 05:17 AM)B olloTheGreat Wrote: Yep, it is clear intel is abandoning all mobile ventures. Will probably look to make an octo core cpu....
Kind of a conflict-of-interest to the market, if Intel has octa-core processors in phones and tablets, while laptops i3's, i5's, and i7's still feature only 2 physical cores. Hopefuly Intel doesn't go the way of Blockbuster when people start realizing that paying $350 for a Skylake or Kaby Lake quad-core processor, or $500 for a dual-core Core i7 6500U for a laptop hardly makes sense.
Excuse me, $393 for dual-core Core i7 6600U, as of Sept 2015.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-...429.0.html
Intel realizes the need to regroup, lest its line-up of CPUs start to backfire with amassing conflict-of-interest sparking here and there, spreading like a wildfire and eradicating the so-called "premium pricing" strategy in the face of AMD's 16-core Zen available for $300, 8-core 15W laptop CPUs for $250, etc.. while it wasn't Intel's strategy to feature octa-core CPUs in smartphones like Qualcomm started to do. Most people like "moar cores", after all - but Intel just didn't want people to be wondering why their phones/tablets had an 8-core Intel CPU while the $1000 laptop has only 2 cores.
Like, Blockbuster didn't want people to start wondering why they should go to Blockbuster stores to rent movies, if there were kiosks everywhere like Redbox's, or mail rentails and online streaming service featuring thousands of movies like Netflix........ UNTIL IT WAS ALL TOO LATE. Regroup, Intel, regroup!!!!!