http://www.androidauthority.com/arm-a9-vs-arm-a15-87559/Now, if you read the above and didn't get a glimmer of hope for the future, I'll try to explain why you should.
Cortex A-15 can run ANY operating system. It can run Direct X, so normal games can run on it. It is 30-50% faster than the fastest phone chip out there right now. It can run a PC at normal speed, or a tablet, or a laptop, or a really beefy phone
and still get longer battery life than what we have now.Apple has already committed A-15 to their next tablets and notebooks (yes, long play times and power and increased glitz means Apple has already locked up the first year's supply of this new chip from their favourite vendors)
So, what happens in 2014-15? MicroSoft either makes it big in phones and in computers and in tablets with Windows 8 or they become pretty much irrelevant in this same period.
Android moves from phones to tablets to laptops and PCs. Google won the lawsuit with Oracle over Java -- Android is unencumbered now and Google just bought Motorola Mobility so they now own 17,000 patents that can be swapped or counter-charged against any other sorts of Oracle type lawsuit moves somebody might make.
Android 4.0 is free to use, open code that can run on phones, tablets and computers (yup, it has mouse and keyboard interfaces now all built in natural style). You can finger stroke, tap, click and keyboard to your heart's content, it will sense what you have hooked up and let you use it.
Development of Android now continues (lawsuit is over) ..... 5.0 might well be the "combine point" of Chrome OS and Android we were told was gonna happen way back from the very beginning.
so ....
Look to the Far East and the Allwinner chipsets for the world shifting changes that are just starting to break.
Allwinner lags behind like 1 generation to the ARM big boys and they are just now shipping their 1.2 ghz dual core A-8 ARM processors which are being shipped out TODAY in Android set top boxes that function like little $74 computers. And yes, they cost $74.
Same little Allwinner A-8 chips are showing up in cute little Chrome OS boxes .....
..... and little Raspberry Pi like Linux stick computers .....
And MicroSoft and Intel are scrambling and floundering like crazy
because they missed the wave completely and although they have lots of money to throw at it,
right now they got no traction at all in phone space.And, with the advent of the powerful enough to do anything/everything A-15 Arm chip, licensed to anybody that wants to build it -- phone space is rapidly becoming every space.