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Pretty Much AMD's APU marketplace is almost a subniche - it fits in that small (and getting smaller) space between tablets/slates powered by ARM and full-fledged portables (Ultrabooks) - powered largely by i5 (not i3). All too often, if the full power of Sandy Bridge/Ivy isn't needed, but...

Planned? Hardly. Planned? Hardly. However, as much as we despise the business markets, Intel is a publicly-traded company (I own stock in Intel, in fact), and needs to satisfy those investors. Multicore is ubiquitous - and is everywhere (those selfsame ARM CPUs are quad-core); however...

Re-read the Article! The article itself points to Broadwell being an SoC (Atom successor). The concern is more outbound; post-2015 and the successor to Lynx Point (which is the mainstream Haswell CPU) - Intel China/RoC is worried that devices will replace the mainstream as where the action...

You're Missing The Point Broadwell is NOT a Haswell replacement - it's not even a mainstream CPU. If anything, Broadwell is "Son of Haswell", but an Atom/Clover Trail replacement (SoC). Haswell will have three different sets of progeny - 1. Broadwell (the current subject of...

The CPU Isn't The Problem! The issue with LGA775 (or anything newer) isn't the CPU itself, but the improvements since in the rest of the periphery. Do you *really* need anything newer than LGA775 to run even Windows 8? Surprisingly, the answer is an absolute *no*, as there is a grand...