http://www.cnx-software.com/2013/12/10/teclast-t97-air-tablet-features-allwin... 
First blood for the A80, a super tablet that supposedly cranks 40,000 points in the new Antutu test. That would put it up over the top of the current crop of ARM or any of the Intel or Apple processors.
Also, if you will remember, just a few months back Samsung was slammed hard by Apple for being "too technologically slow" to supply them any chips for their next generation. I warned Samsung then that if the cheapie guys lapped them technologically that this moniker would begin to smell real instead of just being a marketing slam by Apple.
Now Samsung's new 5420 chip gets up close to these numbers and it is being replaced with a 64 bit high performance chipset soon, so Samsung is NOT technologically slow (they had the first gen of this octa-core stuff out two years ago after all).
Who is coming off technologically slow now is APPLE, who is swinging a dual core 64 bit chip that is getting wiped away by several of the current production ARM Chinese cheapie chipsets using the old A15 last generation designs.
When the Allwinner A90 octa core A15 (bigs only) hits silicone Apple may be buying them to put in their laptops ..... (much better chip, lower cost).
Apple is sniffing at AMD to make them some advanced 64 bit chipsets based off of their data center line of ARM chipsets combined with the best of the AMD video offerings.
Apple MUST be perceived as better, to justify their astronomical high product costs.
Samsung is already buying some Mediatek chipsets rather than continuing their own production of the same sort of chip (better chip, much cheaper price).
The Chinese cheapie guys are just doing better and better all the time. They will become HUGE as they are riding the worldwide wave of computerization and the old US based firms simply aren't even in those markets at all .....
None of the old school guys will be on top at the end of the next few years apparently. All will be relatively small regional guys by then.
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ANTUTU TESTINGAntutu is the benchmark most used in mobil testing. It has just been revised to remove a lot of the cheating possibilities that have been taken advantage of in the past by quite a lot of the processor vendors.
Samsung has been hit by this change as has Intel and all the rest of the crew.
Lots of chips have been designed in the last year or so specifically to maximize their resulting Antutu numbers. Intel's little energy nanny chip's software was certainly written around the old Antutu's testing requirements very specifically.
When re-tested by the new Honest Anatutu specs all of them cheater boys took around 20% hits in reported Antutu performance. The current Honest Antutu ranking goes like this -- Snapdragon 800, Snapdragon 600, Tegra 4, Intel Bay Trail, Samsung 5410 Octa core, then all the rest of the little guys. If Allwinner is telling the truth, they are now at the top of the top 3 in Antutu ratings, certainly well over Intel and Tegra 4.
Intel, who likes to "customize" their performance and energy reporting numbers by using their own personal test methods has simply continued lying with the old numbers in all their ads since the New Honest Antutu puts them in middle of the pack now instead of up at the top as they very correctly think they must be in order to justify their astronomical chip prices.
30,000 was the old top end ceiling mark for the old Antutu test results and if Allwinner's A80 just busted a 40,000 on either the new or the old test it certainly signals a new pack leader in top end performance.
...... and it ain't Intel or Samsung.
Intel must announce some new vaporware chips soon that promise increased performance, lower energy use and lower prices. If they don't then Intel is going back into the can as the new Antutu testing has just showed them to be only so-so in performance, relatively poor in energy use and at EXTREMELY HIGH PRICES.
Stupid choices, in other words.
The new Allwinner chipsets may well be the thumb that grinds Intel back into the mobil dust again. If the new not-yet-released Rockchip A12 chipsets do the same thing, then Intel is in real trouble again.
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