> I'm seeing a mid-range device with 80% the single-core performance of a M3 Max and significantly lower idle/regular-use power consumption. That sounds like a

> I'm seeing a mid-range device with 80% the single-core performance of a M3 Max and significantly lower idle/regular-use power consumption. That sounds like a better device than a Macbook Pro to me. Depends how much you focus on the AI parts of the announcement, I guess. I mean, the marketing makes this sound like their brand new, absolute highest end laptop CPU, not their mid-range laptop offering. This article is about an "AI Everywhere event" with a marketing presentation [1] talking about "leadership", "the latest LLMs" and "Local LLaMa2-7B". Except when it comes to LLMs, it's critical to have lots of high bandwidth memory. The M3 Max can be configured with up to 128GB of memory at 300GB/s, whereas this caps out at 64GB of LPDDR5 and Intel haven't seen fit to mention memory bandwidth but for "LPDDR5/x 7467 MT/s" spec I can't believe it'll be any more than 100GB/s (which I guess is why they aren't mentioning it) It's good to see Intel is paying more attention to ML, but they're clearly still playing catch up to Apple, let alone to nvidia. [1] https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2023/ai/ai-everywhere-2023/Intel-Core-Ultra-Processors-Media-Presentation.pdf https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2023/ai/ai-everywhere-20...