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Intel's actually been making pretty slick cores, especially given that it's 10nm+++ ("Intel 7"). Integrated Xe was a huge boost to graphics. Thunderbolt 4 on ch

Intel's actually been making pretty slick cores, especially given that it's 10nm+++ ("Intel 7"). Integrated Xe was a huge boost to graphics. Thunderbolt 4 on chip is exceptional; short-range 40Gbps networking on every computer with naught but a cable. The 10-, 11-, 12-, 13- series have each been pretty good improvements in various ways. They were way ahead of the curve with Foveros & EIMB, for assembling multiple chips, but haven't really started ramping up either as consumer-imapcting-products anywhere near as well AMD has (which is a shame because Lakefield was an awesome ultra-mobile chip that did great against the Snapdragon competitor, and had such a tiny footprint with onboard RAM). I'm really hopeful & looking forward to seeing what happens once they get their EUV fabs cranking out chips & hopefully continuing to improve their nodes. But I really do fear that chip-buying may be going down, and what that means the computing industry. Mass-volume chips fed scale & competition, made chips cheap & accessible & kept them progressing, kept inventory going down & making new good stuff necessary.

mrjin 4y ago
Large ship takes longer to turn around. What we can see now was something from maybe over a decade ago. Especially PCs are now with more than enough processing power. Once people decided to go for AMD or even arm, they are highly unlikely to buy any PC(Intel ones in particular) in the next a couple of years, no matter how good or how bad it might be.
- rektide 4y ago
  Honestly given how ARM has generally been doing in laptop/internet device space, I kind of expected a lot more blowback & return to x86. For absolute battery life, ARM has been a winner. And that counts for a lot. But man, it is only very very recently I'd even start to consider an ARM chromebook or small laptop, because they've just been really really slow by compare (with Apple as an obvious & notable exception on iPad in particular for a long time now). It always felt like there was a missing story. That we lost a more gutsy, broadviewed computer media that could tell us what was what & make it clear: these laptops are just way way less than what you might be used to or expect. They're pretty decent, they work ok, but wow are you making a lot of sacrifices. The top tier Snapdragon 8's with X2 and X3 are at least vaguely competitive, but they're brand new, on mostly flagship devices, and rare. ARM has taken a decade of being really bad to bad to finally get a couple options that qualify as ok.

mrjin 4y ago

Large ship takes longer to turn around. What we can see now was something from maybe over a decade ago. Especially PCs are now with more than enough processing power. Once people decided to go for AMD or even arm, they are highly unlikely to buy any PC(Intel ones in particular) in the next a couple of years, no matter how good or how bad it might be.

rektide 4y ago
Honestly given how ARM has generally been doing in laptop/internet device space, I kind of expected a lot more blowback & return to x86. For absolute battery life, ARM has been a winner. And that counts for a lot. But man, it is only very very recently I'd even start to consider an ARM chromebook or small laptop, because they've just been really really slow by compare (with Apple as an obvious & notable exception on iPad in particular for a long time now). It always felt like there was a missing story. That we lost a more gutsy, broadviewed computer media that could tell us what was what & make it clear: these laptops are just way way less than what you might be used to or expect. They're pretty decent, they work ok, but wow are you making a lot of sacrifices. The top tier Snapdragon 8's with X2 and X3 are at least vaguely competitive, but they're brand new, on mostly flagship devices, and rare. ARM has taken a decade of being really bad to bad to finally get a couple options that qualify as ok.