9mm thin ???, that’s already the size of whole today phone or tablet (including cpu +board + touch screen + led screen) including more powerfull ARM.

ARM cortex A15 quand cores already more powerfull than atom and big.LITTLE architectures with more ARM cores will come out in 2013, Intel seems to be really far behind.

2014 is still over a year away, frankly i do not see how this matters. by then there will/should be some newer faster thinner available.

Big.LITTLE concept requires increasing the number of processor cores to cover both high performance and low power modes. So a dual core would need two Big and two Little cores and that’s a doubling of cores.

This may provide a greater range of performance vs power efficiency for ARM but also increases complexity. We’ll have to see how efficiently the SoC’s will auto switch between the Big.LITTLE cores and will have to see whether the increased number of cores will in anyway offset the normal shrinking of the SoC as they go down to 20nm and 14nm.

Mind also it won’t be until around 2014 at the earliest that we’ll see ARM SoC’s start applying 64bit towards the consumer market instead of just the server market, and that’s assuming no delays to the present schedule.

The architectural changes being introduced with the Intel ATOM Bay Trail is also fairly significant. Since, the present ATOM cores are still based on the same In Order Processors as when the ATOM was first introduced about 5 years ago.

While the new cores will be Out Of Order Processors, along with finally taking advantage of 64bit with support for up to 8GB of RAM, and the Intel based GMA may still edge out other mobile alternatives.

Mind Intel will be applying technology originally developed for their 22nm Ivy Bridge Core i-Series with Tri-Gate transistors, the GMA based on the HD 4000 (just scaled down from 16 execution units to 4), etc.

Also mind this won’t be the only Bay Trail release, this is just what appears to be the tablet version but that doesn’t mean there won’t be others and there’s also the higher end Haswell to consider with entry offering at 10W max TDP, which ARM won’t have anything equivalent to for quite awhile.

Not the ‘XPS 12′ sorry. The HP Envy x2.

I’d rather have 4 cores without hyperthreading than 2 cores/4 threads with hyperthreading if I had to chose one and assuming the same clock rate. It’s likely hyperthreading isn’t included (at least with the tablet version so far) due to chip size, power consumption, heat, costs and other restrictions.

2014? LOL! That will be WAY too late to the party. By the time Intel drops this on the market ARM SoCs will be sporting ARMv8 64 bit cores. Not to mention Cortex A15 based SoCs like the one Samsung is making w/ 4 Cortex A7 and 4 Cortex A15 cores in a big.LITTLE design will smoke this thing on the high end and have WAY better power usage due to the 4 Cortex A7 cores when not doing anything that is tasking.