I found this interesting;

http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33363_1-57357939/intel-smartphone-chip-no-1-in-some-benchmarks-says-report/

Huh? Did you read the article? It's a chip not a phone.

Huh? Did you read the article? It's a chip not a phone.

If you Google it you will see that a number of manufacturers are already building phones using this chip and they are not common names except perhaps Motorola and Lenovo. More competition coming is a good thing.

Yup, it's about chip not the phone but still interesting read.

Meh.

Intel's problem has never been performance. A Core processor will smoke any ARM CPU. The problem was always performance for power use.

The only thing interesting about this new Atom chip would therefore be power use. The last few attempts failed because of that.

I am not saying they can't do it, just saying the article doesn't really mention the elephant in the room here, as far as Intel is concerned. Intel is a mighty chipmaker and they've shown time and again they can adapt.

The one interesting thing in there is that thanks to Android being open source, Intel can go in and optimize things - Intel has some pretty good compiler people and certainly better programmers than any of the phone hardware makers so that could be interesting. Still a bit of a long shot though.

PS: Last I checked the iPhone 4S was faster than the Galaxy Nexus in these browser/JS benchmarks? Or maybe I just remember it wrong.