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Intel is behind at the moment, but it's hardly in a downward spiral.

• bitwize 6y ago
  True before the M1. False now.
  • olliej 6y ago
    Don’t get me wrong, the M1 is clearly good, but remember AMD has had many years of being behind in both power and efficiency before getting to where it is now. I don’t see intel just rolling over, I suspect it will just take some years for them to get back to a good arch, just as it did when they had their long P4 period leading up to the Core series.
    • bitwize 6y ago
      AMD wasn't going against Apple in the performance silicon space when they were behind. In the coming years, any fab process innovation will see Apple buying up most or all of the fab capacity for the new process in the supply chain, locking other vendors out, meaning that in order to keep pace with Apple Silicon, Intel and AMD will have to build bigger, hotter, more power-hungry chips -- and then they're not really competing with Apple, just retreating into the enthusiast and high-end server hardware markets.