> There's quite a few fallacies in this article. The worst offenders being that performance scales with clockrate, that different CPU designs can scale to the s

> There's quite a few fallacies in this article. The worst offenders being that performance scales with clockrate, that different CPU designs can scale to the same clock rate, and that power use/heat is anywhere near linear in respect to clock rate. I kind of hate the way you throw this out there as if it invalidates the whole point of the article. You sort of walk it back with the rest of your comments, but the damage is done within the first line, overemphasizing nitpicks at the expense of the greater picture. I guess such things should be expected on a forum filled with pedantic engineers... I'm guilty of this myself. I hope people still take the time to read what is an otherwise interesting, fair minded view that proves the central point it sets out -- that ARM is not an inherently inferior architecture and that recent designs from Apple prove this handily.