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Intel Processor Could Be In Next-Gen Google Glass
An anonymous reader points out this story that Intel could be in charge of creating the chips for the new Google Glass. Intel is expected to supply the chips for a new version of Google's Glass device in 2015, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources. The Intel processor will replace one from Texas Instruments, which is used in the current version of Glass, which is a device that allows people to view the Internet or take pictures while wearing it on their heads. Intel hasn't commented yet. The Wall Street Journal said that Intel plans to promote Glass to hospital networks and manufacturers. Google watched the web-connected eyewear in 2012, but it carried a hefty price and was regarded as something that only nerds would wear.
You're now getting your hardware in cutting edge technology people are already tired of.
Because already they had too much.
Cities are going to be built around this.
How does Google Glass compare to Gorilla Glass or sapphire? How far can I drop Google Glass before it shatters?
I set a local private clinic up with its own offline, airgapped copy of the BMJ among other journals and encyclopedias, complete with a dedicated email account set up to receive xml feeds for uploading to flash and dropping onto the clinic server. They were well happy, they can do a full text search for practically anything connected with medicine without going online.
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Let me break this down. Here's Intel's apparent product planning meeting:
1. Mobile processors. What to do for the 4th gen Haswell ones...umm...let's make the Pentium 1/2 the speed of the 3rd gen one and still throw it in laptops. Yay! Let's do that! People freaking love double the battery life when it takes twice as long to do everything. I wonder why half the U-series underclocked 3rd gen chips are all on clearance right now...hmmm...
2. Let's take the atom that runs x86 and just emulate ARM and throw it in some tablets like the ASUS MeMO Pad. That'll be efficient and not glitchy at all. Yes, best meeting ever!
3. Next, let's make chips for a controversial product that nobody wants.
I guess this is what happens when AMD says they don't want to compete in mobile processors. Oh well, at least Intel is running out of feet to shoot themselves in.
The raw performance of the OMAP4 wasn't the issue, BUT the fact that it's an EOL architecture no longer supported by TI is showing in the current software quality of Glass. Ever since Google deployed KitKat to Glass (which has not been deployed in production to ANY other OMAP4 device), Glass has been unreliable and suffered from wildly inconsistent battery life. XE19.1 was a big improvement, but it was still a significant backwards step from pre-KitKat Glass. Then Google went and fucked it up again with XE21 - Twice in one week I had Glass run out of battery in only 8 hours with effectively zero usage other than sitting on my head idle. (1-2 notifications/hour, no Navigation, etc.)
Even before KitKat, the OMAP4 was a woefully inefficient CPU due to its age. A Snapdragon 400 with half the cores disabled would provide a MUCH better experience - more efficient/capable GPU, more efficient video encoding/decoding engine (no burning your head when recording), more efficient CPU.
I haven't worn Glass in nearly two months now. It's in desperate need of a hardware refresh to improve power management and stability, but Intel is the LAST thing Glass needs. Intel's mobile SoCs are worse than even Cortex-A15 in terms of power efficiency, which is why you see a number of Intel-based tablets and settop boxes, but next to no Intel-based phones (there are about as many Intel-based phones as Exynos5-based phones, another SoC that's woefully unsuitable to phones due to power consumption.)
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