What does this mean?

ASML, the people who actually make the lithography lines have finally got the 14nm process debugged and working good enough to run some low level production.

64 bit transition starts now for all the ARM chip manufacturers, with 30-45% improvements in processor throughput and battery life.   High dollar stuff runs first (makes enough to pay for the rest of the 14nm production development costs).

Intel will make some new Bay Trail replacement chipsets that offer 25-50% improvements in everything.   Some of that Intel vapor finally becomes real now.

BTW, there is no Intel Advantage any more going forward, everyone is working on a dead even playing field now.   ARM chipsets vs Intel chipsets going head to head in real products, same process same lithography.

Look for benefits to show up in all electronic computing products next year as folks like AMD and Nvidia roll their video cards over to new low heat low power consumption 14nm lithography.

Look for Intel to try to really go make them a phone chip (if they can buy the rights to a 4G LTE radio from someone that is).

Cheapie stuff will still remain at 28 to 20nm but it will get cheaper.   The big boys will fight each other to get production time on the 14nm lines until more process lines are set up for the 14nm FinFET process.

Once 14nm FinFET is working good, look for a move to 10nm to come fairly soon after as it isn't that much harder .....

Look for everything to get Macbook Air type thin and light and sexy.

The OS wars will heat up again, since you can put full "elephant power" into a super thing super light last all day carry anywhere device.

A Kindle is a somewhat funny device, Amazon is not trying to be state of the art with the processor at all, but Amazon will bend great efforts to have a very good display on their devices.  

Looks good is what is "real" to Amazon.

Amazon pretty much limits what you can do with the Kindle to just consuming their entertainment items, nor will they ever offer a really big screen nor offer a lot of processing power.   Amazon just now put a gig of systems memory into their devices, before that they were at 512k on memory and this is the first year they weren't using a 3 year old Texas Instument chipset.

Justin is their typical customer, he's happy to get his book or his show or his magazine.   Speed isn't his thing.


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Go to the other end of the spectrum .... my daughter.

My daughter just bought a 12.2" Samsung Galaxy Note Pro with a big/Little octacore processor and 3 gigs of systems memory and 32 gigs of fast operating memory and she stuck a 64 gig memory card that has all her stuff into the side of it so she has her world walking around with her.

She carries it to meetings to do presentations and take notes because her company assigned laptop is an old chunky ugly slow Lenovo Thinkpad.    What she can do is light the camera and record the meeting both in sound and in video (which is nice because she can take the meeting home with her to ponder over it).

The Samsung will open up to 8 separate windows and run the processes in them independently at full speed (duh, 8 core processor).

She can wifi into the corporate net and DO stuff with her tablet (it has a cute little thin carry case with a bluetooth keyboard built into it).  Leather covered, leather case, it looks very professional.

Her tablet is just about the same physical size as a iPad2 (there is no bezel around the display for much) and it can do a lot more than the iPad ever could and it can do it all at the same time.

Her processor is just a fast, current 28nm processor running a Samsung tuned Android 4.4.2 OS.

14nm will mean up to 16 cores at up to 3 ghz swinging a full 64 bit OS will be possible, which means you can carry a full bore CAD workstation tucked under your armpit and run it all day off the battery.

I don't think the current Android OS will need all that power, but the ruling OS that comes out of the next few years will be able to swing that sort of power into useful work.

But, paired with her Samsung wrist unit she can do some amazing stuff with what is out there now.