Why Doesn’t Intel Make Smartphone CPUs?
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Intel has long been the dominant player in CPU manufacturing for desktop PCs – but why won't you find Intel processors in modern smartphones?
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WIFIWONDER - posted on June 8, 2018 1:15 pm
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Der Fuchs - posted on June 8, 2018 1:52 pm
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Replypotato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:22 pm
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Ritik Rohan - posted on June 8, 2018 1:16 pm
Asus Zenfone previous models did have Intel processors !! Correct me if I’m.wrong but as far as I know they had
ReplyGaming For Pizza - posted on June 9, 2018 4:36 am
And old Motorola phones too.
ReplyBojidar Martinov - posted on June 9, 2018 12:42 pm
Ritik Rohan yes and they were beast especially zenfone 2
ReplyJason Lai - posted on June 9, 2018 7:45 pm
flyinghigh2000 this is true. I tried the ZenFone 4 back in 2014 as a sales rep and it surprisingly did better than most Samsung and Sony phones of the same or higher price tag
Replypanzervanguard - posted on June 10, 2018 2:34 am
Well they are previous models. Asus no longer use Intel for next phones. My Zenfone 3 Deluxe has a Snapdragon 820. ZF4 will have SD 835 or 840
ReplyVirat Kamble - posted on June 22, 2018 7:15 pm
Yeah! They had.
ReplyJustin Y. - posted on June 8, 2018 1:18 pm
It’s because ayymd secretly runs the CPU business
ReplyTriggered Feminist - posted on June 9, 2018 11:37 pm
Snapdragon, you’re uneducated
ReplyBen Santos - posted on June 10, 2018 11:00 pm
You’re everywhere.
ReplyThanus Respawnables FR - posted on June 18, 2018 9:48 am
AGAIN YOU !?
ReplyGaming Hunter - posted on June 20, 2018 6:07 am
Justin Y. Stop following me
ReplyYou followed me everywhere whether it be unbox therapy or EAP or PewDewPie
あかし - posted on June 24, 2018 2:51 am
Justin Y. This guy
ReplyZacchi4000 - posted on June 8, 2018 1:20 pm
“Why Doesn’t Intel Make Smartphone CPUs?
Reply” Try getting a Zenfone 2 and you’ll discover by yourself
Lassi Kinnunen - posted on June 24, 2018 4:22 am
ask them to make a x86 build.. the arm emulation sucks.
the reason actually is that nobody wants an atom based phone.
and they ditched their arm license like total fucking idiots.
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:46 am
david gutman im also
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:50 am
Yes,i still have that phone,that just survived for 3years,altough i throw it while im ragging at games,leaving for sleep while charging,my camera quality now is crap af,but,i never forget this phone(asus zenfone 2)because he is my great friend,so,i never change my phone,if had a trouble that i cant solve,i go to service center to fix with my mom.
Replyaziz fuady - posted on June 25, 2018 2:30 am
hmm… my zenfone 2 use snapdragon, and it’s still hawt
ReplyZacchi4000 - posted on June 25, 2018 4:55 am
aziz fuady It’s a ZenFone 2 Laser then
ReplyErika Nakagawa Gaming - posted on June 8, 2018 1:23 pm
Score space?
ReplyZiviorHD - posted on June 8, 2018 4:08 pm
I was looking for this comment
ReplyBenjamin - posted on June 8, 2018 6:10 pm
Skwur space*
ReplySoohoran - posted on June 22, 2018 10:40 am
That sounds more like an online dating thing.
ReplyVan Hendrix - posted on June 8, 2018 1:24 pm
Answering life’s interesting questions
Replyedinramiro202 - posted on June 9, 2018 12:30 pm
Why do people say THOT???
Replyhanok reddy - posted on June 10, 2018 3:44 am
Van Hendrix you are in every video I’m watching.
ReplyMR. BROC LEE - posted on June 20, 2018 10:58 pm
Van Hendrix BEGONE THOT
ReplyDriftKing609 - posted on June 8, 2018 1:25 pm
does AMD makes phone processors ?
ReplyCarth O'Nasty - posted on June 8, 2018 10:20 pm
“Adreno is a series of graphics processing unit(GPU) semiconductor intellectual property cores developed by Qualcomm and used in a variety of their SoCs. The core was initially developed under the Imageon brand name by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006. After AMD sold the division in January 2009,[1] Qualcomm renamed the Imageon products to Adreno, an anagram of Radeon.”
ReplyCarth O'Nasty - posted on June 8, 2018 10:28 pm
There you go @mobile master race i looked it up on wiki for you lol does this mean you’ll share now?
ReplyHaloVivek13 - posted on June 10, 2018 12:49 am
No, but they dominate processors for consoles.
ReplyMay the Science be with You - posted on June 23, 2018 2:19 am
Nuno Herdeiro the gpu is not the cpu
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:51 am
No,they are not,my uncle said,AMD cpu’s are fast heat
ReplyHerrBlauzahn - posted on June 8, 2018 1:26 pm
Build a server off of a smartphone CPU!
ReplySabrintwitt3r - posted on June 8, 2018 2:49 pm
but they are different. think about a workstation grade i7 and wallet-friendly pentium
ReplyDatOneLefty - posted on June 8, 2018 2:51 pm
Sabrintwitt3r and they also use nearly no power
ReplyAlvin Chan - posted on June 8, 2018 9:02 pm
HerrBlauzahn would be a disaster in terms of handling terabytes data. The low clock speed and microscopic cores just won’t cut it unless they made some 1nn architecture possible.
ReplyPseudoResonance - posted on June 10, 2018 1:07 am
Actually, people are working on doing just this. Raspberry Pis have been used by some people and possibly universities in the future to create low cost supercomputers by creating giant clusters of thousands of Pis. They’re cheaper to build and cheaper to run than a “real” supercomputer, so it’s great for testing out concepts before actually running them on a full scale supercomputer, despite the different architecture. Samsung also showed off a bunch of recycled S5s as a bitcoin mining cluster. Again, thanks to the super low power consumption, and the fact that the phones were recycled, so essentially free, it ends up as a very cheap and viable option.
ReplyEduardo Avila - posted on June 24, 2018 3:31 pm
*Throws a raspberry pi onto you*
Done!
(People use them to make web servers and other kinds of servers as long they dont have too much acess, and yeah rapsberrys use arm chips.)
ReplyIcarus - posted on June 8, 2018 1:29 pm
0:24 Intel is definitely in Linus’ pants! #AmIRight?
Replypotato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:28 pm
Sex
ReplySualeh Irfan - posted on June 8, 2018 1:29 pm
They were making CPUs for Asus Zenphones
ReplyLassi Kinnunen - posted on June 24, 2018 4:20 am
the explanation for why they sold strongarm suxks too.
and linus could remember a little bit.
the explanation provided here is total bullshit. like 100% bullshit!
ReplyMonish Meher - posted on June 24, 2018 4:52 am
Sualeh Irfan exactly y
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:30 am
Yes,my phone cpu is intel,that for sure my brand is asus zenfone
Replyempty Mt - posted on June 24, 2018 11:24 pm
Sualeh Irfan Motorola Razri had Intel processor too
ReplyCAN I GET 1000 SUBS WITH NO Vids - posted on June 26, 2018 8:04 am
Sualeh Irfan my friend has one intel core asus 🙂
ReplyHarryw007 - posted on June 8, 2018 1:30 pm
(reads the title) *because intel just rebrands their cpus with a higher tdp and clockrate*
ReplyEduardo Avila - posted on June 24, 2018 6:24 pm
Vincent De Alwetende Yep, but still bad
ReplyVincent De Alwetende - posted on June 24, 2018 6:44 pm
Eduardo Avila true, but thankfully we don’t need those speeds for browsing etc because we have ssd and pci-e nowadays
ReplyEduardo Avila - posted on June 24, 2018 7:25 pm
Vincent De Alwetende I dont think ssd replace those clock speeds and that you use a core i7 7500u or a 4500u plus a 940mx or a 8850 just for browsing, and they are quite expensive actually.
What i dont like about the ulv lineup is that they replaced the old m lineup, that was cheap and had a good performance for the price, it was the cheap hq/qm ones.
But intel just got rid of those chips in the 3/4th gen (there were some m processors in the 4th one, but they are pretty rare and expensive). For example a simple core i5 2450m is better than my i7 4500u and some newer ones as 5,6th gens too, and it wasnt a hq or even a i7, and it beats many i7s around there.
So they shove down those sluggish processors down our throat.
They ar good for browsing, but for such task i would use a core 3m or a octacore atom, or a raspberry or any arm based laptop, that uses way less energy than those ulv ones (i mean, the atom in the gpd win uses only 2w as base tdp!).
Unfortunatly i am now stuck at trying to get a thinkpad t440p that has a 4th gen core i5 m that can upgraded to q not so cheap (through chinese websites tho) i7 4700mq (i think it was that one).
And where i live, i cant find a t440p that has the nvidia card, so i am stuck with a intel hd4600 too…
Many of the new h or hq laptops are too expensive here and if i buy outside they will get expensive with the taxes, and also many h and hq new laptops, have them soldered and try to be thin, what makes them really unreliable and more prone to break and have bga problems.
The ulv lineup really seems out of purpouse, as ultrabooks could benefit from them but laptops are becoming ultrabooks with better gpus, and dont exist much anymore. So these ulv are too expensive for browsing but also dont have much performance for anything above that. Also are prone to kill themselves.
Thats a real issue, and worse now, with that bad lead-free solder.
At least atoms and arm based devices arent that much expensive (at least in the us).
ReplyVincent De Alwetende - posted on June 25, 2018 6:12 pm
Eduardo Avila thank you, I forgot that Intel had the M line. Isn’t the new Celeron kind of replacing the low end M line?
ReplyEduardo Avila - posted on June 25, 2018 6:35 pm
Vincent De Alwetende Nope. But the m line had:
-Low end celerons (they are kinda still here but now they are ulv too)
-Core i3s ranging from awmost celerons to awmost i5s
-Core i5s ranging from awmost core i3s to awmost core i7s
-Core i7s ranging from awmost core i5s to some powerfull beasts awmost close to some qm/mq processors.
The celeron and atom lines were the first ones to adopt the ulv “u” style with smaller tdp and base clock.
The most awesome thing was to buy a 28 or 35w celeron and upgrade it to a i7 without any riscs, and even to a qm quadcore if the motherboard allowed.
ReplyNowdays its soldered and thats it.
GamingS1000RR !! - posted on June 8, 2018 1:36 pm
A Big Mac is NOT the same no matter where you buy it. UK to US Mac’s are totally different.
ReplyPHNX - posted on June 9, 2018 8:42 am
“filth” nah uk cadburys is the best
ReplyFheed Pexx - posted on June 9, 2018 10:16 am
Nope, the ingredients are exactly the same. And I mean exactly. The only thing that could differ is the meat, which they obviously get from different sources. I could go to two McDonald’s in my city and they’re slightly different, it has nothing to do with what country they’re in but rather the employees, age of the equipment – those kinds of things. Also some locations do not use Heinz ketchup, but that’s about it.
Replyjaymaster103 - posted on June 14, 2018 3:08 am
GamingS1000RR !! He was being sarcastic in the sense that wherever you buy a Big Mac it looks nothing like the menu picture. So the “same” here refers to expectation vs reality of burger served.
ReplyBloodRider 14 - posted on June 15, 2018 1:51 pm
Not according to Apple
ReplyCoco10203 - posted on June 17, 2018 1:37 am
Etern4l Saiy4n Generally McDonalds in European countries have higher quality
ReplyOtto Meitzner - posted on June 8, 2018 1:37 pm
4:26 This is getting more and more crazy… now its not just the hairstyle anymore that changes xD
ReplyMundo - posted on June 8, 2018 2:42 pm
lmao
ReplyCavey Manta - posted on June 8, 2018 5:08 pm
Jeez, Linus..what happened?!
Replypotato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:26 pm
LINUS IS TRANSFORM
ReplySithhy - posted on June 8, 2018 1:38 pm
0:37 – Linus holds the phone upside down
Reply0:39 – Cut to next shot & the phone is in it’s normal rotation
Etern4l Saiy4n - posted on June 8, 2018 2:09 pm
Sithhy hi Amon, no offense but zahir beat you in your game.
Replyhanif dwi kusniardi - posted on June 10, 2018 3:29 pm
What phone is that
ReplyChương Lê Nguyên - posted on June 12, 2018 1:47 pm
iphone y
Replypotato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:24 pm
he notices the notch is at the bottom
ReplyQuetzalcoalt - posted on June 8, 2018 1:41 pm
It’s funny, PC means Personal Computer, the laptop is a Personal Computer, your phone is also a Personal Computer. but when someone hears” what your PC”, you always refer to your Desktop or Home Computer. 😀
ReplyQuetzalcoalt - posted on June 9, 2018 2:14 am
nah ^_^ it’s my fault.
ReplyShahmi Saidi - posted on June 9, 2018 5:40 am
Correct terminologies ftw!!
Replyrashidisw - posted on June 10, 2018 4:31 am
there was time when deskop or home computer were called “Microcomputer”…. which where Microsoft got their idea for its business’ trademark name.
ReplySyahir Roslan - posted on June 10, 2018 2:13 pm
wait till some idiotic mac users saying that apple macbooks aren’t a PC ????
ReplyGaming Hunter - posted on June 20, 2018 6:05 am
Quetzalcoalt and what’s the difference between a mac and pc( why can’t we call a mac a pc)
ReplySame goes with the Mackbook and Laptops
Md Shariful Islam 1604064 - posted on June 8, 2018 2:00 pm
So, no one’s talking about the girl in 0:58? Alright, we’re finally getting civilized.
Replythomas m. tordel jr. - posted on June 10, 2018 4:55 am
nope,, we’re all upset about FUKUNOHAKO @ 1:20
Replypotato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:25 pm
MASTER BATES
Replyflex seals - posted on June 19, 2018 11:26 am
Rundee ka bacha naam to change kar la islam aa raha hai naam mai huwus ka poojaree chootiyia
ReplyAga Khan - posted on June 19, 2018 2:54 pm
just curious of ur name, is that your University ID?
Replyboneless pizza - posted on June 20, 2018 8:21 am
the irony…
ReplyMarley - posted on June 8, 2018 2:20 pm
GIMME MY DAMN BIGMAC NIBBA
ReplyYBNalpha - posted on June 10, 2018 5:16 am
diemc7a1 not saying it just shows how much respect you have.
ReplyHDSQ - posted on June 10, 2018 10:08 pm
Edit: smallMac
ReplyThe Seven - posted on June 19, 2018 12:30 am
????️
Replyam - posted on June 23, 2018 10:34 am
smallermac
ReplyKyle Li - posted on June 8, 2018 2:24 pm
Now we just need intel gpu- oh wait.
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:44 am
I always dreamming one company is making a gpu for phones,that will be awesome,right
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:45 am
DrMagnusW Fortnite And More! Lol,i laughing while i read ur comment hahai cant stop laughing
ReplyArkaSEN - posted on June 24, 2018 7:46 am
dor ryoku hohohoohohohoh,that was a crap quality
ReplyLone Wolfz - posted on June 24, 2018 11:01 am
Idk what to say man but you’re everywhere
ReplyDavid Calman - posted on June 25, 2018 12:48 am
except Qualcomm is doing that, Snapdragon is all about that graphical power (relative to other SoCs)
ReplySoumyadeep Banerjee - posted on June 9, 2018 5:58 am
*602K views 18K Likes and 463 dislikes*
ReplyNice prediction.
potato potato potato potato potato potato potato - posted on June 12, 2018 8:23 pm
lol almost there
ReplyDebesh Jena - posted on June 10, 2018 8:03 am
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