> Cortex-A55 cores are almost half a decade old at this point. If anything, this just proves that Moore's law is dead as disco. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 is no

> Cortex-A55 cores are almost half a decade old at this point. If anything, this just proves that Moore's law is dead as disco. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888 is not a design from a decade ago, nor is it fabbed on a process node from a decade ago. It's Qualcomm's current flagship, regardless of the design choices they make. Also, ARM's successor A510 efficiency cores that Qualcomm is expected to ship this year don't sound like they will be an improvement on power efficiency. >We’ll have to wait for the new generation SoCs to actually hit the market for us to test the new A510 cores, but if indeed they come with larger power consumption operating points to achieve higher performance, then Arm won't be much nearer in catching up to what Apple has been doing with their efficiency cores. As of the latest generation of SoCs, Apple’s efficiency cores were around 4x faster than any Cortex-A55 based SoC. Which, running at roughly the same system active power, also made them 3-4x more efficient in the traditional benchmarks. As presented, a theoretical A510 SoC won't be able to close that efficiency gap at all. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16693/arm-announces-mobile-armv9-cpu-microarchitectures-cortexx2-cortexa710-cortexa510/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16693/arm-announces-mobile-ar...