Today's ARM architecture is just a dressed up CISC architecture, let's move away from ARM's lame attempts at copying AVX with neon and just use the real thing!

(You see how the door swings both ways there? Trust me, if any architecture designer from the early 1990's were frozen in a block of ice, thawed out today and then shown the ARMv8 ISA, he would never in a million years call it "RISC")

Wait a minute... I thought we were only supposed to like politicians that stood up to big evil corporations*. Here we have a politician who is standing up to big evil pharmaceutical corporations, shouldn't we be applauding him?

* Note that I never said it had to be *logical* to stand up to them, just that you bash them as "evil." The word "corporation" has replaced "jew" as an acceptable target of pogroms in the modern age.

OK, so the big evil corporations who make vaccines are intentionally buying off politicians to berate vaccines so that those big evil corporations lose money... or something...

Yeah, you got the standard "I hate corporations we need 100% government control of everybody's lives right now in the name of 'freedom'" positive mods. Interesting that your post had about as much logical content as the rantings of the aforementioned politicians....

They thought they had him, but turns out it was a false positive.

Unlike a copyright where copyright springs into existence at the moment the work is fixed in a tangible medium of expression, getting a patent is a long, drawn out, and formal process.

If you do something on the job and get a patent for your employer as part of the job, you'll know exactly who owns the patent before the patent application is even filed (your employer will be the owner 99.9% of the time barring weird exceptions). Your employment contract will spell this out in detail, and on top of that you'll also be signing an assingment agreement around the time the patent is filed, which is an agreement to assign all rights to future patents that arise from the application to your employer. This is all very formal, spelled out in black & white, and leaves little room for error assuming a minimal level of competency. In other words: In the real world, this isn't a problem and as usual there is an academic proposing solutions for a problem that doesn't actually exist because it's more fun than trying to tackle real problems, which are harder to deal with.

Ahem...you are comparing a state-of-the-art 28nm SoC on the ARM side with a several years old 45 nm Intel netbook that includes a separate chipset.

I find it hilarious that you only looked at that one part of the Anandtech review and declared victory for ARM when even you know that 32nm Medfield SoCs were on sale before the Exynos 5 even launched and have substantially better power/performance ratios than were exhibited in the Anandtech numbers.

I find it even more hilarious that you summarily ignored the Haswell demos I mentioned since you must think that denying the results will make ARM win...

You haven't bothered to look at Anandtech's review of this system then. Considering the Exynos SoC is sucking down 8 watts of power running a single-threaded non-GPU Mozilla Kraken benchmark, you better believe that Samsung is going to have to cut down this chip's performance to run in a smartphone power envelope.

Well, these benchmarks don't include power consumption but when Haswell has been demoed at 8 watts running Unigine Heaven and other benchmarks of the Exynos 5 at Anandtech show it running at 8 watts while doing the single-threaded non-GPU Mozilla Kraken benchmark, you kind of have to wonder who is doing the "catching up" and who is "running scared"....

Now that the latest ARM chips from late 2012 are actually faster than a similarly clocked Atoms using the exact same architecture that was introduced in 2008 (well at least in some of those benchmarks, the Atom won some too), will we finally see the ARM fanboys talk-up Atom as Intel's best chip of all time?

Remember, when you say that Atom is a complete PoS and simultaneously crow that you finally beat it in performance 4 years after it hit the market, you kind of sound like someone who bragged about cheating to win the Special Olympics...

If your ancestors hadn't been kidnapped from Africa, then you might be considered property in 2012 considering slavery is alive and well in many regions of Africa right now...

The Slashdot Test: Any submission that includes references to Kickstarter and 3D printing is always posted to the front page.

STOP POINTING OUT FACTS! We just want to hear reinforcement of our stereotype that all white people are evil racists and all minorities are racially superior since they are completely incapable of being bigots towards anyone!

Now excuse me while I go to the Black Panther meeting where we discuss how we will be "poll volunteers" again in 2016 to make sure that [insert name of Democrate here] wins because any other vote is automatically racist.

I'm not an iOS/Mac person but for all the people who say that Apple can just dump Intel for ARM* consider this:
Every iOS application you have on your ARM phone was compiled for x86 and run on x86 *before* it ever was released into the App store. That's because of the development environment on Macs for iOS applications. Note that I used the word "compiled" deliberately and correctly in that statement: The applications are *not* run in an emulator that simulates an ARM CPU, the applications are compiled down to native x86 code.... portabiliity is a 2-way street, not a one-way street that only goes toward ARM.

Quote from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_SDK): "Note that the iPhone Simulator is not an emulator and runs code generated for an x86 target rather than ARM."

* Could Apple do that? Yes, but unless you want your new 2014 Macbook Air to be slower than the one from 2010, you'd better hope that Apple greatly outstrips even ARM's most optimistic estimates for the performance of the Cortex A57 cores...

OK, so all those snarky posts about how the U.S. is a worthless third world country because Foxconn was going to open factories here?
GUESS WHAT: Now the U.S. is a worthless third world country because Foxconn isn't going to open factories here!

That's the beuatiful thing about already have a predetermined conclusion, the facts always fit.

Funny you should hate on Medfield when a Razer I with Medfield has better battery life than a krait Razer M with the exact same screen and battery. But it looks like you never let facts get in the way of your koolaid.