http://www.androidauthority.com/best-soc-intel-vs-qualcomm-vs-samsung-658684/Forget about what is coming out next year (when and if it makes it) how about what is shipping in products right now?
Can a comparison of what we have available RIGHT NOW explain why there are no Intel chipset equipped phone products anywhere anymore?For these tests, Android Authority got hold of different phones using these three SoCs. The phones are:
Snapdragon 810 – Sony Xperia Z5 Compact
Exynos 7420 – Samsung Galaxy Note 5
Atom Z3580 – Asus Zenfone 2
Here are the test results:
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Wrap-up"Intel’s biggest problem is that it is trying to use the same microarchitecture that it uses on the desktop and squeeze it into a mobile SoC. Creating high performance, power efficient processors is a complex business and ARM has specialized in this field. Every ARM processor is designed specifically for power efficiency while delivering the maximum performance. Intel’s focus is the desktop and servers, places where big ventilation fans are the norm and power usage isn’t as critical as on mobile. Until Intel starts to take mobile seriously it will always come in second, just as demonstrated by the Atom Z3580.Yeah, performance-wise it ain't even close any more --- the "new improved" 14nm Intel mobile chipset lost in every test against its competition, even those run at older larger nanometer lithography levels.
No wonder Microsoft dumped Intel.
No wonder no one puts Intel chipsets in phones any more --- they were sorry back when Intel was giving out 10's of billions in bribe money and now that the bribe money has stopped NOBODY WANTS INTEL MOBILE CHIPSETS FOR ANYTHING FOR MUCH ANY MORE.
Now here is the icing on the poo pie --- Intel mobile chipsets have issues running some elements of standard Android due to their CISC construction that requires the use of a software abstraction layer to do some native Android calls. And that abstraction layer goes buggy/strange every time Android changes and Intel is getting slower and slower fixing it.
Intel is 95+% good for all native Android functions, and that last ~5% says it simply isn't good enough for you to buy one.
So, in short Intel is slow and buggy/crappy in Android mobile uses.
And that is why you don't see many Intel mobile chipset phones any more.
Last reason is Microsoft kicked them out of the Wintel marriage bed for Qualcomm, who makes a better, faster more flexible chipset that is a full system on a chip (something Intel still hasn't done right yet).
My apologies to those who own gen 1 Asus Zenphones and who like them just fine for the less than $300 you paid for them.
(Intel paid out the other hundred dollars that the phone actually cost to build, BTW)
But since Intel has stopped shelling out the big bribes, Asus Zenphone went with a faster, more energy efficient ARM chipset and the new Zenphone is now a lighter, cheaper, simply better phone for it.
The cries of the Intel fanboys have split the net-waves. "Unfair comparison, you should be comparing the Z3580 to mid-range ARM processors from last year."OK, let's run with that logic a bit. We should take the current state of the art very best Intel mobile chipset that exists (or is planned to exist since Intel has given up on mobile) and only compare it to the MID-RANGE ARM CHIPSETS from last year in order to have a fair comparison (i.e. to allow Intel to win a few of the tests).
So, by their own fanboy protests Intel fans are saying Intel is a full year and a bit out of date
and about half the pack behind the OLD last year's primo phone chipsets from the ARM world.
So what is Intel's very best mobile chipset compared to what's being announced next week at the big CES computer show?Answer: dog poo