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> On a desktop machine, there’s no benefit in lower power dissipation and slimmer bodies The obvious win for me is shipping multiple times as many cores in the
by lunixbochs 6y ago
> On a desktop machine, there’s no benefit in lower power dissipation and slimmer bodies
The obvious win for me is shipping multiple times as many cores in the same TDP. If Apple used a chiplet strategy and good interconnect to make scaling easy - imagine a 16-core Mac Mini, 64-core iMac Pro, and something obscene (256 cores?) in a Mac Pro.
- Eric_WVGG 6y agoExactly. If Intel's 3ghz cpu eats 262W and emits 895 BTU/h, and Apple's passively cooled ARM laptop chip eats 130W and 450 BTU/h (completely made up numbers), how fast would Apple's ARM chip run with active cooling and 250W?