IDC in this year released "global quarter PC tracking report" shows

IDC in this year released "global quarter PC tracking report" shows, the fourth quarter of 2012 global PC shipments to 89800000 units, year-on-year decline for the first time in 5 years, and the tablet computer market continues to explode. With Microsoft Surface release, the fourth quarter of 2012 global flat-panel computer shipments reached a record high, reached 52500000 units, up 75.3%. The global flat-panel computer annual shipments and the overall PC shipment gap will become smaller and smaller, the flat-panel era will be coming.

In recent years, the rapid development of mobile office, mobile Internet, flat computer as a simple, portable, integrated terminal rapidly to become the new darling of many people, and the rapid rise of the tablet computer also allows mobile chip industry slowly changed, the ARM architecture products currently on the market share is high, but the mention of chip area, people have to think of Intel.

Now the chip market, Intel can be said to occupy a dominant position in the PC and server processor market, while the ARM architecture because of its energy efficiency control technology, already achievement in the field of mobile devices. However, with the changes in the IT market, Intel into the mobile terminal industry, the architecture of X86 plate also has good performance, compatibility, especially the Metro interface of the Window 8 operating system based on Microsoft, can combine two perfect.

As mobile devices, power consumption is difficult to face. Intel to power Core and Atom control of the processor to lower, in the next generation Haswell processor platform, has done a very detailed and recommendations, and in the Ivy Bridge frame strength can not be underestimated. In 2012 Intel announced, Ivy Bridge products consumption will fall to 10W. At the end of 2012, a public test, two authoritative AnandTech large, Tom's Hardware published a detailed Intel mobile chip processor and ARM architecture based on Tegra 3 related testing process and data, test results show that, in the standby power consumption of CPU, mobile Intel processor power consumption than CPU lower ARM architecture.