Comments on: Quick First Look: Lenovo and Intel’s Medfield Android Phone

By: Shaffer897

Shaffer897 — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:29:00 +0000

Ya can’t wait for motos future phones.Intel processors great thing

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 02:00:00 +0000

What I meant was originally Apple went from Motorola Power PC to IBM Power PC and then jumped to Intel. Not a direct jump from Motorola to Intel.
As history would show Motorola split its semiconductor manufacturing division into On-Semiconductor and then it was spun as Freescale Semiconductor.
Cheers!

By: Judah Richardson

Judah Richardson — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:11:00 +0000

“along with the fact that this processor is supposed to use far less energy than some of its competitors.” – Actually Intel’s own slides show the comparision is a wash. Medfield uses less energy in some cases and more in others. Where it really shines is browsing and graphics performance, which explains what you saw with the games at CES http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/will-medfield-be-the-chip-intel-needs-to-take-on-arm.ars

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Power PC was a joint group of Motorola, IBM and Apple.

Currently, the Cell processor has come from that lineage.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:40:00 +0000

Then IBM Power PC processors.

By: andrew z

andrew z — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:12:00 +0000

No. Google and Intel are located in California.

This phone is clearly in Las Vegas.

By: magnimus1

magnimus1 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:16:00 +0000

Microsoft just did….still meh

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/113421-microsoft-patches-bulldozers-performance-we-investigate

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:41:00 +0000

Lonnie is right on both counts. ATK is an excellent alternative to going through android’s native task killing ability when you get a process that’s hung up and unresponsive (not many people like going through 4 menus to kill a task). ATK allows you to do it in 2 seconds. disable ATK’s auto kill feature and its a useful tool to keep on your phone when you need to quickly kill something.

By: Jim Davis

Jim Davis — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:50:00 +0000

I’m pretty meh about medfield. Ars technica has an article about medfield on their site that essentially says intel has a lot of catching up to do.

By: research paper

research paper — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:57:00 +0000

I agree with you.

By: Drinksprite

Drinksprite — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:18:00 +0000

look at all that space the screen coulda been using up

By: Blood

Blood — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:11:00 +0000

No.

By: Kiril

Kiril — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:58:00 +0000

That’s probably true. I have not looked at the specs for the bulldozer, so it very well may be. Although I also have never heard of AMD doing multithreading (they have “Turbo boost”, but that’s a completely different thing).

Anyway, theoretically, any processor can be multitreaded (although for most of them, it is not worth it — the architecture has to be designed for it, or you won’t see any performance boost). Intel, however, has unparalleled support for it.

By: lostsync

lostsync — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:00:00 +0000

PPC had a lot to do with Apple’s success in the media arts fields. There’s a reason Apple was able to sell PowerBook G4s at 1500$/ea for over 2 years after switching the desktops to G5s and most of it had to do with how capable the PowerPC chips were.

By: Azturbomini

Azturbomini — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:34:00 +0000

Believe me Intel knows what they are doing and what direction to take. They are currently building Fab 42 here in AZ with a cost of 1.6 billion dollars to do so.