By: Del (_.delete@this._.com), April 19, 2012 9:52 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
It is time to revisit the Medfield discussion Linus initiated some time back. Finally products are on the market in phones. First up we have the dual core 1.5GHz snapdragon from Qualcomm:
http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-s/
Then we have the quad core Tegra 3:
http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/
and entering last, finally a selling phone with Medfield:
http://www.xolo.in/
First up, it seems things are happening much faster in the mobile sphere than we are used to in computers, nobody seemed to think any of them would make it to market before around years end. Next, it seems ARM still has the upper hand. The big manufacturers all seem to go the ARM direction. Third observation, when x86 finally shipped on a phone, it runs Android/Linux, not windows. Seems somebody knows better than Steve Flop.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any good benchmarks on these CPU's, but Phoronix did benchmark a dual core Tegra 2 clocked at 1.0GHz, which seems to compare well with the ageing Atoms and Pentium M, beating the Pandaboard with a nice margin almost across the board:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=compulab_trimslice&num=1
http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-s/
Then we have the quad core Tegra 3:
http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/
and entering last, finally a selling phone with Medfield:
http://www.xolo.in/
First up, it seems things are happening much faster in the mobile sphere than we are used to in computers, nobody seemed to think any of them would make it to market before around years end. Next, it seems ARM still has the upper hand. The big manufacturers all seem to go the ARM direction. Third observation, when x86 finally shipped on a phone, it runs Android/Linux, not windows. Seems somebody knows better than Steve Flop.
Unfortunately, I haven't found any good benchmarks on these CPU's, but Phoronix did benchmark a dual core Tegra 2 clocked at 1.0GHz, which seems to compare well with the ageing Atoms and Pentium M, beating the Pandaboard with a nice margin almost across the board:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=compulab_trimslice&num=1
