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[Palumboism]

Intel spent $10 Billion trying to get into cell phones and tablets and failed miserably.  Looks like they know when to quit.

PC World
Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets

Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it spent trying to expand in those markets.

The company is immediately canceling Atom chips, code-named Sofia and Broxton, for mobile devices, an Intel spokeswoman confirmed.

These are the first products on the chopping block as part of Intel's plan to reshape operations after announcing plans this month to cut 12,000 jobs.

The news of the chip cuts was first reported by analyst Patrick Moorhead in an article on Forbes' website.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063508/components/intel-is-on-the-verge-of-exiting-the-smartphone-and-tablet-markets-after-cutting-atom-chips.html

[Palumboism]

TSMC Launching 10nm FinFET Process In 2016, 7nm In 2017.

This is big news because Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and many more have their CPU's fabricated by TSMC.  Also, it looks like TSMC might beat Intel to 10nm transistors.  It's my belief that anything smaller than 5nm will be impossible.

TSMC has announced at its Q1 2015 earnings conference that it will be bringing 10nm technology to market in 2016 with 7nm following in 2017. The company stated that it’s making good progress with its 10nm and 7nm process technologies and both are on track to meet schedule.  Both process nodes are based on the high performance, low power 3D FinFET transistor technology. In addition, the company revealed that it’s already working with customers on 10nm chip designs that will go into production in late 2016

http://wccftech.com/tsmc-promises-10nm-production-2016-7nm-2017/

[mr.turbo]

A "pentium" will still run almost anything. Microsoft managed to make a decent device somehow and its selling.  I wonder how much they spent? microsoft and intel, it's like chicken and egg

[mr.turbo]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/intel-to-cut-12-000-jobs-1461097009

 

[Kwon]

Hmm, such a successful company as Intel, you'd think they'd manage to invent something revolutionary for cells and tablets.

Didn't expect them to give up on that market, what a waste.

[Palumboism]

AMD's next Zen and K12 processors sound like beasts, with up to 32 CPU and a massive GPU.  The last AMD processors Bulldozer, and Excavator were dogs, but Jim Keller, the super star chip designer, is back at AMD and he's the chief architect of Zen and K12.  His goal was to beat Intel's speed.

What We Know So Far About AMD’s Zen Microarchitecture
Two months later we learned that AMD was also working on a monstrous High Performance Computing APU with 16 Zen cores and a huge integrated GPU in addition to stacked High Bandwidth Memory. We also learned that AMD is planning to introduce high performance server CPUs with up to 32 Zen CPU cores. Hearing about all of those different SKUs is jolly exciting, but it was also quite frustrating as no-one really had a clear idea of what to expect from Zen. That is until AMD revealed a whopper at its Financial Analyst Day earlier this year, which is that Zen will have a 40% instruction per clock improvement over its predecessor “Excavator”.

http://wccftech.com/amd-zen/

[HTexan]

Intel spent $10 Billion trying to get into cell phones and tablets and failed miserably.  Looks like they know when to quit.

PC World
Intel cuts Atom chips, basically giving up on the smartphone and tablet markets

Intel could be on the verge of exiting the market for smartphones and standalone tablets, wasting billions of dollars it spent trying to expand in those markets.

The company is immediately canceling Atom chips, code-named Sofia and Broxton, for mobile devices, an Intel spokeswoman confirmed.

These are the first products on the chopping block as part of Intel's plan to reshape operations after announcing plans this month to cut 12,000 jobs.

The news of the chip cuts was first reported by analyst Patrick Moorhead in an article on Forbes' website.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3063508/components/intel-is-on-the-verge-of-exiting-the-smartphone-and-tablet-markets-after-cutting-atom-chips.html

http://fortune.com/2016/05/17/intel-apple-iphone-modem/

Your story is incomplete. 

[Palumboism]

Hmm, such a successful company as Intel, you'd think they'd manage to invent something revolutionary for cells and tablets.

Didn't expect them to give up on that market, what a waste.

Intel's business model's outdated and Arm's business model's too powerful.  There are 320 companies that license IP's (intellectual property) from ARM.  45 billion chips have been produced using the ARM architecture including all Apple Iphones and all Samsung phones.  

How Arm makes money:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-how-arms-business-model-works/2


List of all the companies that have licensed a few of Arm's architectures:

Cortex-A57    AMD, Broadcom, HiSilicon, STMicroelectronics, Samsung, MediaTek, Huawei

Cortex-A53    AMD, Broadcom, Samsung, Altera, STmicroelectronics, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Xilinx

Cortex-A17    VIA, MediaTek, Realtek, Rockchip

Cortex-A15    Texas Instruments, ST-Ericsson, nVIDIA, Samsung Electronics

Cortex-A9    Broadcom Corporation, Freescale, NEC Electronics, nVIDIA, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Mindspeed Technologies, ZiiLABS, Open-Silicon, eSilicon, Altera, Xilinx

Cortex-A8    Broadcom Corporation, Freescale, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, PMC-Sierra, ZiiLABS

Cortex-A7    Broadcom, Freescale, Fujitsu, HiSilicon, LGE, Samsung, STEricsson, Texas Instruments

Cortex-M3    Accent Srl, Actel Corporation, Broadcom Corporation, Cypress Semiconductor, Ember, Energy Micro, Fujitsu, NXP, Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics CO. Ltd., STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, Zilog, Open-Silicon, eSilicon


Intel was trying to take on all these companies by themselves with the Atom.  It was a losing battle.

[Kwon]

Thanks for the clarification, Palumbo!

[Palumboism]

Boston Dynamics
Looks like they're making impressive progress.

[Nirvana]

Cell Tech. Meso Tech. Mass Tech.

[Raymondo]

Boston Dynamics
Looks like they're making impressive progress.

Google is selling the company.