Re:It's no ARMv8 (Score 2)

What is getting sad is this pointless x86 vs ARM discussion. It's like to discuss bike vs car. Both ARM and x86 have they own technological/economical strengths and weakness'es. We can't state some sort of absolute 'winner' here. ARM as architecture always had and probably always will have better power efficiency than x86. It's just inherited from primary ARM design points to be low-power embedded system processor first, no matter whether it'a LTE router or a smartphone. And it does it's job quite well. We should also mention the fact than most ARM cores comes as SoC's, so nearly every required peripheral is implemented in a single chip, while x86 more or less are still microprocessors only. Another important aspect is what partical ARM core do you have in mind? There are ARM reference cores (Cortex family), there are custom implemented ARM cores (like Apple, Qualcomm chips have), there (probably) will be some kind of custom/high-performance ARM implementations like ones coming (hopefully) in AMD K12. Yes, as for raw performance ARM may not be such microarchitectures as Skylake, but can easily outperform atom-based x86's. I personally believe that ARM (and ARM based SoC's) have enough performance to be employed in smartphone/tablet/ultrabook segments. However, it may not be ideal choice for full-blown desktop/workstation but it was not designed to be!