Intel is killing off low-power Atom chips

[Chris G]

Apollo Lake should be great I’m looking forward to it end of the year or early 2017.

They will be more powerful, but still a long wait before we see them and more expensive. The days of $99 tablets will be coming to an end in a year or so. But it’s not a bad thing as they might be $150 tablets, but performance wise so much better.

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[ScutMonkey]

I feel kind of mixed about this.  If Intel can continue to move their core M cpus into smaller and smaller devices, then ok.  Otherwise, this is a mistake, IMO.  The future of computing is a device the size of your phone (or smaller) which does everything.  Similar to Windows Continuum.  It works as your phone and if you plug it into a dock then your apps blow up into a full version to do everything else.  You could dock it into a tablet sized device, a laptop sized device, or a dock connected to a monitor/KB/mouse, etc.  It could be even smaller and you plug it into a phone dock too.

If Intel isn’t moving towards that direction (and some of their quotes make it sound like they are) then that’s a mistake.

[Albert Lyubarsky]

“Windows Continuum”  sounds good, but it’s BS.  I’d be happy to buy Windows Phone but so called “legacy applications” do not work on it. I frankly don’t know what is Microsoft’s problem to install real Windows 10 on phones (with Intel’s chipset, of course), it would be big push for Atoms as well.

[ScutMonkey]

Albert Lyubarsky wrote:

“Windows Continuum” sounds good, but it’s BS. I’d be happy to buy Windows Phone but so called “legacy applications” do not work on it. I frankly don’t know what is Microsoft’s problem to install real Windows 10 on phones (with Intel’s chipset, of course), it would be big push for Atoms as well.

I’m only using Continuum as it should work as an example.  The philosophy is what is important.  You have phone sized apps when using the phone screen which blow up into full sized apps when you plug it into a monitor.

The continued neglect of Windows Phone 10 by Microsoft has been very disappointing to me.  I’m currently using Android and I hate it, but it’s got all the apps so what are you going to do?

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