Comment Re:Good: APUs. Not so good: Server ARM (Score 2) 75
Actually, Atom has had extremely competitive idle power draw going back several generations... the trick was that the idle power draw was best on the embedded platforms that were not widely released prior to Clovertrail and *not* on the desktop platforms where the separate chipset alone used more power than the CPU.
That's not my point, however. At best I'd expect those A57 parts to have performance parity with Avaton under load... and Intel has already solved the idle power draw issues, especially when it comes to SoCs.
Hey, if your servers sit around doing absolutely nothing all day, then I have a better idea: Turn them off and use zero power.