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The last time a chip company talked about "Efficiency" in this way, we got +10 years of 5% increments in performance and 50% in price increases for 2 and 4 core
by PedroBatista 4y ago
The last time a chip company talked about "Efficiency" in this way, we got +10 years of 5% increments in performance and 50% in price increases for 2 and 4 core CPUs..
I know it's my PTSD, the words make sense but I really hope this is not code for "we can't get much more performance out of our architectures, so we'll focus in selling "efficiency".. "
I really hope I'm wrong, since the power consumed by this chips has gotten a bit out of hand ( not as much as the GPUs.. )
- eric__cartman 4y agoARM CPU manufacturers have been doing that for more than a decade :)
- PedroBatista 4y agoYes, but real world performance ( aka compute speed ) has been like desktop Linux, "it's here, but not really" ( we are talking about general desktop, laptop, server here, not mobile ). Having said that, Apple's M1 was the real one that changed things, also ARM on the server is starting to actually be a mainstream thing, so I get why AMD and Intel are sweating, I just hope they can pull it off because a World where you need to buy a +$1000 aluminum box attached to the CPU you want to get is not a better World.. or worse: Doing business with Qualcomm.
- weberer 4y agoDesktop Linux has been better than Windows out of the box for more than a decade now. Unless you're talking about market share, which will never increase without a hundred million dollar marketing blitz behind it.