The newer Krait versions are also built on the same 28nm technology that drove the original Krait, and are hence highly power efficient despite having higher clock speeds and better performance.

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To explain this phenomenon, Credit Suisse pointed to other research that shows having a more diverse, and therefore bigger, pool of talent to pull leadership from leads to better performance.

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