The is news that Microsoft will be releasing Surface Phone with Intel chips. http://technofres.com/2016/10/10/microsoft-surface-phone-2016-release-date-news-update-price-features-specs-revealed/
I sincerely hope Intel Management will show seriousness with this, unlike in the past.
Both Intel & Microsoft need a foothold in the market. Intel, in the past has been too arrogant to collaborate with Microsoft.
MSFT bought Nokia assets for $7B "with a B"!! Then turned around and sold it to Foxconn for $350M. Sure, they know what they're doing in mobile.
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Two junks do not make one good product.
Maybe this time around they will lose 5 Billion dollars in instead of 10 billion.
Here are an assessment of the iPhone7 which is still on 16nm... and it is pretty amazing and clear Apple designers are superior to Intel's and continue to add distance. Next year iPhone8 with die shrink and performance goosing will enable them to easily add another 30-40% improvement, than the iPhone8s in 2018 will get 7nm TSMC and likely before Intel 10nm sees the light of day, bad times indeed at Intel.
At 10 and 7nm Apple can easily release cores for mobile Macs that will likely be superior to Intel x86 so strike two for Intel.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10685/the-iphone-7-and-iphone-7-plus-review/3
"It’s been 3 years at this point since the iPhone 5s brought a desktop-class CPU to a mobile SoC, and Apple continues to stand alone when it comes to high-end SoCs. SoC vendors lack the incentives to actually bring anything that can compete with Apple’s SoCs to market because OEMs by and large are content to advertise simplistic specs that don’t really have any connection to user experience. Whether it's SoCs with clock speeds that are practically impossible to reach due to TDP limits, IP blocks that are visibly (and visually) broken, or compromised cameras with huge sensors but not much else."
LOL, look at the Iphone7 benchmarks on 16FFC and realize they will migrate to 10nm for iPhone8 with likely a couple more graphics and big cores and 20% intrinsic as well as additional architecture improvement above the core count and x86 will be left in the dust. They couldn't compete when they had process leadership they will get more embarrassed when there is process parity!
I will never buy an x86 based phone and I don't trust Microsoft, Blackberry an others to stay in the market. Even for Google, smartphones may be an experiment.
Apple and Samsung are the only vendors I trust to stay in the market, upgrade their products in a rational way, support synchronization.
Most people are very much un-happy with Win-10 and the intrusive updates at any moment and the fact that EVERY keystroke and EVERY thing you type is basically copied and COULD potentially be used by Microsoft. My clients are moving to Linux Mint after Win-7 in 2020. Microsoft missed the boat and now it is once again NOT listening to what little customers it has left. Android is here to stay. There is no room for a 3 operating systems.
BK will probably pay MSFT to use x86 based on idiotic decisions made in the past.
Nobody wants a windows phone.
Windows laptops even a tough sell these days.
Microsoft lost the platform war.
It's over.
Microsoft is the os/2 of mobile. Late. Slow. No apps.
Oh yes this combination will be a big hit, NOT.
Please I hope both Intel and MSFT are not that stupid, a Windows OS and x86 chip in a phone will be a disaster. Then again both companies are desperate to get into the mobile device market.
Nobody wants an Intel processor inside a phone. It's too slow, too hot, expensive & doesn't integrate a modem.
Looks like it could have been a good opp for Broxton if the fatso hadn't scrapped it. Maybe it got scrapped because MS chose QCOM Snapdragon instead? We may never know ...
"More recently, we've heard that the Surface Phone could have 8GB of RAM, 512GB of internal storage (really?), and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 830 processor (which isn't expected until early 2017). It could also feature a 21Mp rear camera, USB-C, and a 5.7in AMOLED screen."