“Imagine you were the company which invented the PC, revolutionized the smartphone and created the tablet industry,” Jonny Evans reports for Computerworld. “What would you do to hurt your imitative competitors? According to AppleInsider, Apple has a nuclear option: producing mobile devices 20 times more powerful than any it has made before.”
“For once, this news isn’t driven by the usual bouncing rubber-clad but insubstantial Digitimes speculation: It comes directly from Imagination Technologies, who announced its next-gen PowerVR Series6 GPU core family earlier this week,” Evans reports. “These processors could wend their way inside Apple’s devices, delivering performance up to 20 times more than the current generation.”
Evans reports, “This fits well with the trajectory of Apple’s Post-PC plan — the performance difference between a mobile device and a plain old PC will continue to evaporate… That suggests the analysts at IDC and Gartner will soon be forced to follow the lead of Canalys, and begin to count tablet sales as PCs. (In future, even smartphone sales may be counted as these as the performance difference evaporates.)”
There’s much more in the full article here.
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