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Skimmed. I was hoping to read a deeper question about Intel's power consumption. I keep seeing benchmarks showing Intel's massive gains with the 12th gen that a
by awill 5y ago
Skimmed. I was hoping to read a deeper question about Intel's power consumption. I keep seeing benchmarks showing Intel's massive gains with the 12th gen that avoid talking about power. It's not that hard to match or exceed a competitors benchmark if you double the power budget.
I've read that for the original iPhone Steve Jobs was in talks with Intel to produce a low power x86 chip. Intel said no. The silicon landscape would be very different if that had happened.
- bloodyplonker22 5y agoI calculated once that the cost of buying an intel chip is around double that of a similar performing AMD chip if you factor in the cost of electricity over a few years. Unfortunately for intel, their latest generation is still on very old 10nm technology while AMD is currently on 7nm and is going to 5nm soon. Because of their giant screw-ups with a sales and marketing CEO, Intel has fallen far behind with their own fabs, and power consumption has not improved at all. All they can do for now is sell their latest generation chips with a terrible profit margin in order to compete against AMD.