CES 2013 was an event of many missed presentations and messages that simply were lost in translation. One such message was AnTuTu score of Lenovo K900:
Red vertical line divides K900 results from the nearest contender, a Xiaomi M2 on the left side: 小米 M2, should better be called what it was meant to be called: Millet M2. While Qualcomm's APQ8064 with Adreno 320 inside this 'Millet' might not be the toppermost ARM chip to power a phone, it's quite near to the pinnacle of performance that today's ARM designs for mobiles can offer.
GizChina reviewer reports:
In case you think these Antutu scores have been faked, they have already been confirmed by Tech Author and GSM Insider as well as Lenovo themselves. Lenovo even said themselves that the benchmarks are not from the final version of the phone and could be even higher when the phone does go on sale this April in China.Lenovo K900, or 联想K900 in native parlance (联想 is 'Association' if translated) is powered by Intel dual core Atom Z2580 Clover Trail chip with PowerVR SGX544 MP2 integrated GPU. At 2 GHz, it looks like overclocked above these specs:
| Type | CPU / Microprocessor |
| Market segment | Mobile |
| Family | Intel Atom |
| Model number ? | Z2580 |
| CPU part number | Z2580 is an OEM/tray microprocessor |
| Frequency ? | 1300 MHz |
| Turbo frequency | 1800 MHz |
| Introduction date | 1st half 2013 |
| Architecture / Microarchitecture | |
| Microarchitecture | Saltwell |
| Platform | Clovertrail+ |
| Processor core ? | Cloverview |
| Manufacturing process | 0.032 micron |
| Data width | 32 bit |
| The number of cores | 2 |
| The number of threads | 4 |
| Floating Point Unit | Integrated |
| Level 1 cache size ? | 2 x 32 KB instruction caches 2 x 24 KB data caches |
| Level 2 cache size ? | 2 x 512 KB |
| Multiprocessing | Not supported |
| Features | |
| Low power features |
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| Electrical/Thermal parameters | |
| Notes on Intel Z2580 | |
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Specs might be outdated though. But having a phone CPU that does Hyper-Threading, Burst-Performance without burning your hand to the bones is amazing. In other words, when Google would be looking for better sample of fan-less netbook for their next Chromebook, I'd rather see this Medfield bad boy. However, Microsoft claimed its exclusivity to the point that there would be no support for Linux:
According to Ars Technica, the reason why Clover Trail won’t be Linux compatible is that Intel and Microsoft worked together to give make the new chip set specific functionality with Windows 8 devices. Namely, Windows 8 will have the ability to control Clover Trail’s advanced power management features. While it may mean no Linux, it could actually be pretty awesome for those who actually want it to run Windows 8. For everyone else, there’s always a virtual box or Bluestacks.In a sense, Lenovo did something awesome with its K900 running some sort of Jelly Bean on this de-Linuxed hardware.
Chippy has a sort of comparison of Clover Trail (not Clover Trail+) machine to the i5-based Thinkpad Ultrabook. On very different WiFi connections, it doesn't show that much, but the Clover Trail laptop looks pretty good anyway:
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