[Arm-netbook] Allwinner outsells Intel

[Alexey Eromenko]

1. Intel's strongest market is not tablets, but desktop+laptop CPUs
(and chips), so concluding that Allwinner outsold Intel is very
premature and irresponsible.

How many total CPUs Allwinner ships ?
How many total CPUs Intel ships ?

2. The Chinese screens indeed improved from 800x480 (last year in
2012) to 1280x800 (in 2013). This is a BIG deal.
(The Chinese keep lying calling them a Retina display, where it is FAR
from Retina) [1]

3. The GPU benchmarks are absent, although people say that A31 and
Tegra3 are comparable. (For me and friends, the stumbling block was a
lack-luster performance of the Chinese Mediatek MTK6575 processors on
their smart-phones).
Obviously all the Israeli people I know of (whom tried them) dropped
them, and bought Galaxies and iPhones instead.

So... how does Mediatek MTK6575 compares to Allwinner A10 ? and to A31 ?
Needless to say MTK6575 loses badly to both Tegra 3 (HTC One X) and to
Exynos 4412 - (Galaxy SIII).

4. For Allwinner it makes sense to integrate a 3G (or 4G) modem, so
they can sell chips to smartphone vendors.

5. Chinese tablet prices have risen from $80 a tablet 7" last year
(2012) to $120 a tablet this year, 2013. But if the product is of
better quality, it is justified. (IMO overcoming Nexus 7 quality will
be very difficult indeed, so I'll consider $200 as a top-level price
for 7" tablets for the coming years)

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[1] Retina is 260 PPI for 10" tablets and 300 PPI for anything smaller.
You will need Full HD display (1920x1080, 7") to qualify as Retina. OR
like Nexus 10 did: 2560x1600 @ 10".
Moreover at 7" with just 1280x800 resolution - the individual pixels
are clearly visible. If this was a sub-5" display, it would qualify as
a Retina.

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shiping-Onda-V712-Dual-Core-1-5GHz-7-Android-4-0-IPS-1280x800-1GB-16GB/640952996.html

-Technologov (from Israel).

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 08:37 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>> How fast Allwinner are, as compared to something basic, like Nexus 7 ?
>> (NVIDIA Tegra 3)
>
> depends on which one, what core(s) it has and what GPU.
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Benjamin Henrion <bh at udev.org> wrote:
>>> Allwinner outsells Intel:
>>>
>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/05/08/1636217/chinas-allwinner-outsold-intel-qualcomm-in-tablet-processors-in-2012
>>> http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4413656/London-Calling-Did-Allwinner-outsell-Intel-Qualcomm
>>>
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