Flashback: a look back at Intel-powered smartphones and tablets

06 November 2022
In the early days of PDAs and smartphones Intel was selling ARM-based chips. Later it had a go at x86 smartphone chipsets but those weren't as popular.

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  • Anonymous
  • Lkg
  • 06 Nov 2022

OneUI needs core i9 gen 13 to match phones powered by 8g1.

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    • Anonymous
    • 0uJ
    • 06 Nov 2022

    I gaw tablet with Atom. Its super slow on windows 10. And always problems with drivers.

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      • shalekk
      • pXC
      • 06 Nov 2022

      i never quite understand the terminology of some ASUS, like CG...what? CG stands for Cheap Garbage for sure, thats what that phones are at that time, even tablets powered by Atom like Fonepad was garbage too.

      ANd before you ask, yes, i have one at that time...intel was behind qualcomm even, no wonder qualcomm still makes the best SoC today.

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        • 4H3FE
        • YUU
        • 06 Nov 2022

        Oh Asus Zenfone 5, I still have it somewhere in my house. This reminds me back in the days there's different versions of android apps for ARM cores and Intel cores lol.

          AnonD-834088, 06 Nov 2022Blimey blast from the past,never had a Windows phone in my ... moreEdge was fast though, moving from normal Gprs (G) to Edge (E) double speed and you could even stream 240p video in youtube, make video calls, download movies etc.

          Edge bandwidth was over 200kbps, in some configuration could reach 400kbps.

            If memory serves me right, the first batch of Android Phones with the Dual-Core Atom processors in 2012 were actually competitive.

            They were best for about a month, as they competed well against the older Cortex A9, the unoptimised Cortex A15, and were soon outpaced slightly by the first Qualcomm Krait (S4 Play) processors. Those Krait Cores later came in a Quad Configuration (S4 Pro), then came the QSD 600, and then the QSD 800. Like clockwork in 2013. Only then did Intel released their Quad-core Atom processors in 2014, by which point it was too late. And soon they would be left far behind with the likes of 2016 launching 16nm nodes with Cortex A72 and Cortex A73 processors. So Intel basically killed the project.

            The best processor they developed was the Intel Atom (x7-8750), this never found its way in a phone or any Android devices that I'm aware of. It was popular with tablets like the MS Surface Go, and even in a gaming device called the GPD Win-1 (the only pocketable one around with x86 Windows). The whole thing was embarrassing from Intel, such mismanagement only comparable to the likes of Microsoft. Ideally they (Intel) should have started making Hybrid Processors ages ago like in 2015. And used their Intel 14nm node for a Core-i + Atom SoC. That could've made Windows Tablets more popular against the likes of iPad and Android Tablets. They may have kept Apple as a customer for longer, and held the lead against AMD for longer, had they went that trajectory. Or if they spun their Intel Foundry early for making GPUs, RAM, Storage, and Motherboard chips.

              Well, now it's "amd" powered. Easy to know because of the heat problems in summer.

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                • AnonD-834088
                • iLV
                • 06 Nov 2022

                Blimey blast from the past,never had a Windows phone in my life,but even tho in them days 2g Edge must have been a pain,2g was like waiting for a bus 5am Sunday morning,😱

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                  • Anonymous
                  • Dkh
                  • 06 Nov 2022

                  Was good for notebook i remember i had one as well

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