http://liliputing.com/2016/05/arm-unveils-cortex-73-mali-g71-graphics-vr-augm...OK, we got Intel dumping off all its production on its low end chipsets. We got MS saying they ain't going do low ball no more. We got all the low end PC boys going
smash all hard up against the abrupt ugly wall put up by these dual moves by the big Wintel boys .......
is there no joy in Mudville at all tonight?Yes, there is !!!! MUCH more better stuff is coming by the end of this year!!!!
ARM just uncorked their 10 nm chipset designs for next year !!! ARM is going to have a 10 nm generation of chipsets and
all the little guys get to go play, not just Qualcomm.
With new, super powerful Mali G-71 VR graphics support being completely natural to the generic 6 and 8 and 10 core chipsets !!! And 5-G and 6-G mobile data speed support built in from the beginning !!!
ARM Cortex-A73 CPU technology, meanwhile, is said to offer 30 percent better sustained performance and power efficiency over Cortex-A72… at least when manufactured using a 10nm FinFET process.
This is a 30% speed improvement over a Qualcomm 810 - 820 chipset, so it isn't going to be a slug by any means. 
Cortex-A73 chips should be able to support peak frequencies as high as 2.8 GHz and to keep on running at top speeds for a longer time than most other mobile chips have been able to do so far.
No throttling, unlike the Intel and Qualcomm processors have been plagued with lately. While using only simple heat sinks and thermal pipe cooling systems, nothing esoteric or fan power energy consuming, unlike what Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung had to do this past year.
Like most of ARM’s recent designs, chip makers can use big.LITTLE technology to pair high-performance Cortex-A73 CPU cores with lower-performance cores in the same chip. So we could, for example, see multi-core processors featuring both ARM Cortex-A73 and Cortex-A53 CPU cores
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GRAPHICS !!!! OH MY !!!!!Mali-G71 is based on ARM’s brand new graphics architecture, called “Bifrost,” and it’s said to offer 50 percent better graphics and a 20-percent improvement in power efficiency over Mali-T880 graphics. 
With 32 shader cores, ARM says these new graphics chips could be better than those you’d find in many mid-range laptops today. Yep, better than Intel's new and improved on board graphics just out this past year and functionally obsolete already ,,,,,,
Bifrost is also optimized for the new Vulkan graphics API, the exact same API that is used in PC gaming today. Serious gaming, in other words. Built into the chipsets from the get go.
Smells kinda like a low-to-midrange laptop replacement chipset, doesn't it? Something that could run off your phone while shining up on the big screen and doing some serious games by golly.
PREDICTION: Given some time, somebody is going to design a wall socket powered variant of these chipsets that is
super cheap to build which can replace all of what Intel and MS just dumped off production on this past week.
With better cost posture and better graphics and large cheap production ability and ease of design for production at say, 16nm ???
Mediatek, Allwinner and Rockchip will all 3 get licenses for this chipset for 2017 as once again they can nip right at the heels of the big boys spec-wise.
Rockchip is already in the laptop business, making RK3288 chipsets for chromebooks that come from Haier and others. Expect more offerings of stronger products from Rockchip and the others as the Android Laptops commence shipping this fall.
Chromebooks will tend to go upscale using more powerful AMD and Intel chipsets, leaving Android laptops to run off of ARM chipsets at a lower price/feature point.
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