>I just hope that a battery life breakthrough is on the horizon from AMD or Intel. Intel has their Lakefield chips which use the same big.LITTLE configuration

>I just hope that a battery life breakthrough is on the horizon from AMD or Intel. Intel has their Lakefield chips which use the same big.LITTLE configuration but their first large release chips will be Alder Lake next year. My concern is less with Intel and AMD's ability to implement the cores as much as Microsoft's ability to implement a scheduler. They never came to grips with the weirdness of AMD's Bulldozer architecture.