New ask Hacker News story: Why can Apple out CPU Intel?
Why can Apple out CPU Intel?
4 by raasdnil | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Seems Apple are moving to their own chips for many reasons, but commercial ones aside, I see reports of Apple chips operating at 25-30% better thermal efficiency than their Intel counterparts. My question is, why is it that Apple can achieve such massive jump in the heat/performance ratio? And why couldn't Intel? Is it just that Intel can not embrace ARM or is it an issue of backwards compatibility forced on Intel that makes their chips so inefficient in comparison? Seems like building a CPU is a very non trivial task and seems this current situation would be similar to Intel making it's own laptops.
4 by raasdnil | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Seems Apple are moving to their own chips for many reasons, but commercial ones aside, I see reports of Apple chips operating at 25-30% better thermal efficiency than their Intel counterparts. My question is, why is it that Apple can achieve such massive jump in the heat/performance ratio? And why couldn't Intel? Is it just that Intel can not embrace ARM or is it an issue of backwards compatibility forced on Intel that makes their chips so inefficient in comparison? Seems like building a CPU is a very non trivial task and seems this current situation would be similar to Intel making it's own laptops.
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