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Isn't the current Intel Core line an evolution of the Pentium M (2003), itself an evolution of the Pentium III (1999)? Apple starting a fresh design with up to
by tarsinge 7y ago
Isn't the current Intel Core line an evolution of the Pentium M (2003), itself an evolution of the Pentium III (1999)? Apple starting a fresh design with up to date constraints may have given them room for improvements I guess.
- jayd16 7y agoThat doesn't explain why AMD and Qualcomm can't keep up either.
- hajile 7y agoSandy Bridge was the last really big architectural change. It seems heavily inspired by the Alpha EV8 design (Intel bought Alpha from HP in the 2001) with of course, a very different decoder section (they wrap the x86 decoder around a RISC architecture). https://www.realworldtech.com/alpha-ev8-wider/ https://www.realworldtech.com/alpha-ev8-wider/