Just how powerful is that budget smartphone that you're about to buy? Toms HW has a fairly brief coverage on almost all of the available silicon brands that are in the market today
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chinese-arm-soc-mediatek…
It's worth a read if you're interested on knowing how these low cost parts stacks up against the Western-made competition.
Thanks. Nice read, and I wonder how many of them would end up in the "desktop" or "laptop" class CPUs competing against Intel and AMD. There are already ARM-based Chromebook utilising Samsung's chip. Now I'm hoping for more sub-$200 Chromebooks on those Chinese-buy shops.