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Intel adding big.LITTLE ten years after it appeared in Arm is an interesting development.
by klelatti 5y ago
Intel adding big.LITTLE ten years after it appeared in Arm is an interesting development.
- turbinerneiter 5y agoOne could argue it took ten years for Intel to have enough competition from ARM to actually wake up and do something again. I don't care, I got a 12th gen i7 with integrated graphics (in the weird time window and edge case where Intel was ahead of AMD again for a bit) which is super fast and was way better priced then Intel used to be. Comperition is good for consumers.
- klelatti 5y agoAgreed - I think it’s indicative of a less insular attitude which can only be positive.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoWell, desktop and laptop PCs didn't have the extreme power constraints that mobile devices had.
- klelatti 5y agoSo why are Intel using it now?
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoThe goal posts moved since then.
- klelatti 5y agoWhich goal posts? Competition from Apple?
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoNo, consumer demand. It takes years to design, test and prepare for manufacturing a new CPU architecture, so Intel had their big-little in the pipeline long before Apple came out with the M1, same how it took Apple over 10 years of iterations to get to M1. The real question is what is AMD gonna respond with?
- klelatti 5y agoIt’s a strange argument that customers didn’t want better battery life from their laptops until now. All credit to them now but lagging 10 years behind Arm in having this is not impressive.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoI think you're mixing up some things. I couldn't just buy an ARM chip and plug it in a desktop PC or laptop and plus, the ARM chips, big-little or not, we're terribly underpowered 10 years ago compared even to Intel Celeron. So calling it 10 year lagging because of a feature that had no relevance in the PC space back then is a misrepresentation. Big-little made it to the PC market now since modern CPU cores are powerful enough that even low performance ones can still run a desktop environment and browsers well enough without stutters. That was not always the case 10 year ago, so consumer demand was always optimized around maximizing raw performance. So, the fact that ARM had this feature 10 years ago is larglely irrelevant for this argument It's ARM's performance improvement at the top end in the last 10 years that changed the landscape for the PC industry to a degree, not big-little.