Samsung拿翹，Intel沒轍？
Intel去年以1.6GHz雙核Z2560辛苦奪得Galaxy Tab 3（10.1）的design-win，在Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1上出局了。
Samsung always has multiple sources for its chips, including Samsung's own in-house chip effort. We have a very good relationship with Lenovo.
- Hermann Eul, Intel head of mobile computing
Bay Trail遭棄，轉進幼教產業，Intel劍挑玩具龍頭Mattel？
Intel年底將推出內建Bay Trail-T的強固型Android兒童平板，其背部帶有可供插拔字母方塊的凹槽。
Nabi is meant to be a
“premium” product, even though it is for children.
- Hermann Eul, Intel head of mobile computing
Intel將首次在Merrifiled晶片上解禁Atom的64-bit功能，而其自製64-bit的Android核心，有望比Google更早推出，搶進64位元SoC風潮。
Merrifield will be the first time Atom offers its 64-bit support to mobile devices. Atom has had a 64-bit capability since its introduction in 2007, but
64-bit support was disabled in practice, in part because of power requirements of a mobile device. With the rising interest in 64-bit in smartphones and tablets, Intel is taking the gloves off. Google's Android doesn't currently support 64-bit memory addressing, but
Intel has written its own 64-bit Android kernel.
We don't want partners to be held up by Google's delay. And when Google does provide that, partners can just slot that code into place on Merrifield systems, in place of, or on top of, the Intel kernel.
- Hermann Eul, Intel head of mobile computing
Bay Trail will transition to “Cherry Trail,” and Merrifield will transition to “Moorefield.” The former will use Intel's next-generation 14-nanometer technology, the latter will stay at 22-nanometer but move to four CPU cores from two. Intel expects to unify tablet and smartphone lines with the so-called “Broxton” line on 14 nanometer.
14nm的Cherry Trail跟22nm四核Moorefiled今年方能送樣，終端產品上市也是2015年的事，換言之，2014年是Intel臥薪嘗膽之際，Bay Trail與Merrifiled得繼續忍辱付重。
Intel had for awhile now been talking about the ways in which competitors will stumble when they run up against really hard semiconductor problems, with even warning of a “
transistor cliff,” when the physics of circuitry make chips harder and harder at smaller sizes, perhaps
too hard for anyone but Intel.
Qualcomm, and other competitors such as Nvidia and Broadcom, all of whom are dependent on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to actually make the chips they design, will run into a problem as
Taiwan Semi's technology stops scaling. As TSM moves from 28 nanometer to 20 nanometer, it will run into a problem at the subsequent step,
16 nanometer, where TSM will not add any real reduction in transistor size. That means that
16-nanometer parts a few years from now will be stuck at a 20-nanometer feature size while intel presumably zooms ahead to 10 nanometer by that time.
TSMC明年的16nm製程，閘極電晶體還是20nm等級，屆時Intel已經來到10nm水平了。
And what that means is that, unable to scale the density of a chip as Intel can, Qualcomm and Nvidia and Broadcom and the others will not be able to integrate as many parts as Intel on a single semiconductor die.
To those who point out that Intel hasn't yet released its integrated baseband chip SoFIA,
Intel will have the last laugh in a few years' time as Qualcomm and the rest hitting a scaling wall.
- Hermann Eul, Intel head of mobile computing
總之，不要笑貓仔沒點，那個什麼Q的、N的、B的，都是眼前浮雲，等到2015（2016？）年TSMC撞牆時，Intel才是最後笑傲的王者，哈哈~（以上純屬Eul個人立場，與本人無關）