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AMD, Intel, and a slew of tech companies are teaming up to fend off ARM chips (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 month ago by AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Really they need to work on power usage and temperature of x86 so the chips are easier to use in mobile devices without a fan and dying in 3 hours. Stationary devices seem to be chugging along with x86 comfortably, but the chips are currently impractical otherwise.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 0 points 1 month ago (10 children)

You're not going to see phones with x86. The architecture just isn't going to scale down like that. Not if you want something faster than a Pentium III.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Asus Zenfones used to use Intel Atom x86 processors.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And were they any good?

My car runs Android Automotive^1 on an Intel Atom and performance is trash. I would hate to have a phone on the same platform.

^1 As in, the car runs Android directly, not Android Auto running from a phone.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were comparable to the rest of the phones at the time. Not great, not terrible. Compared to anything in 2024 they were obviously trash, but that's mostly because we've made 10 years of progress since then.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Samsung Galaxy is 15 years old, and it was excellent. First Android device I felt had decent performance. I think my first one was an Galaxy S III, which would have been 2012.

The Zenphone that's out now uses a Snapdragon. There's probably a good reason for that.

[–] Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, that there are no smartphone sized Intel Atom processors anymore.

The zenphone 2 performed similarly to much more expensive phones. https://www.anandtech.com/show/9251/the-asus-zenfone-2-review/4

I'm not going to be the person defending intel in 2024, but back in 2015, that atom was competitive.

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