Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 236
Intel is working on major improvements in idle power consumption though, because they know that is their weakest area at the moment.
For their next big architecture (Haswell), they are claiming a 20x reduction in idle power consumption compared to Sandy Bridge. Then another year after that Intel will have a die-shrink of Haswell (called Broadwell) using 14nm, which you would expect to reduce power consumption even further.
Those kind of improvements will bring them a lot closer to ARM in power consumption, while still having far superior performance.