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I'm interested to see it but I expect it'll be just a noticeable step up, not a blockbuster. The process and focus on IPC seem like good things for power consum

I'm interested to see it but I expect it'll be just a noticeable step up, not a blockbuster. The process and focus on IPC seem like good things for power consumption. But it seems like there's a ton of work Intel's done to optimize sleeps/twiddle clock freq/etc. for the thin-and-light laptop use case, and I'm not sure AMD is close to catching up with that. They could always surprise me. (TSMC does fab power-sipping mobile chips too!) I just don't have super high expectations.

atq2119 7y ago
It's a good thing that the next Surface is going to use AMD's CPUs. It's likely that (unlike other laptop manufacturers) Microsoft will spend a decent amount of time to work through sleep and power issues on the software side at least for Windows, which will then trickle down to other manufacturers.
- mkl 7y ago
  Only the 15 inch Surface Laptop 3. All other models are still Intel.