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Not sure jabs at Intel are fully justified. I don't think they can be viewed only be Geekbench scores of their top of the line processor (excluding Xeons now).
by drej 10y ago
Not sure jabs at Intel are fully justified. I don't think they can be viewed only be Geekbench scores of their top of the line processor (excluding Xeons now). When you look at its admirable battle with ARM with their Atoms and the M line, the story is quite different. Stick computers and fanless laptops, both with x86 compatibility that ARM just does not have, by definition (yes, I know of Microsoft's latest wizardry in their Continuum dept.).
So sure, we're hitting some performance limits, but power efficiency (and thus battery life and/or weight) and form factors are also important considerations and Intel is making progress there.
- cookiecaper 10y agoYes. Intel's biggest concern the last several years has surely been preventing ARM from cannibalizing its PC marketshare, and trying to establish itself as a reasonable option for mobile devices. Corporate energies haven't exactly been focused on increasing desktop computing performance.