sustained use of an A11 will not beat an Intel chip due to better cooling and IPC In an iPad profile sure the heat dissipation is very limited. With even a bas

sustained use of an A11 will not beat an Intel chip due to better cooling and IPC In an iPad profile sure the heat dissipation is very limited. With even a basic passive heat sink (not just a spreader, but actual fins for surface area), much less active cooling like most laptop and desktops use, and the heat profile dramatically changes. This change was inevitable -- recent A## chips have been just astonishing for passively cooled chips. The state of the art in binary translation, and the support for cross compiling across architectures, makes this a very doable transition.