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To: engineer who wrote (110659)	3/23/2012 9:08:13 PM
From: sd_cowboy	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 117858

Let's ignore the "myopic" & "fab guys" comment as the fact of the matter is engineer knows absolutely nothing about me. I was commenting on two flavors of CPU's that will compete over the next 2 years, 28LP Krait & HKMG A-15. IMHO ARM designed A-15 targeted to be more upmarket while QCOM designed Krait to be more smartphone optimized. A-15 probably has a deeper pipeline, perhaps 17-18 stages while I'd think Krait is in the range of a 12-13 stage pipeline vs. Scorpian, which I think had a single digit pipeline. I'd expect A-15 to clock higher than Krait and on an absolute basis probably post a somewhat higher CPU benchmark score at the same process node. I'd expect QCOM to "do it again" wrt making a better design with Krait having better "per megahertz" and "per milliwatt" performance. Bottom line I'd expect Krait to easly win in the smartphone marget segment but, especially given the above process difference, have a tougher time in the larger screen, larger battery, more computing oriented tablet and notebook market segment where a more power efficient SoC has less of an impact on the overall product power curve. I'm going to leave it at that and not post further on this subject.