Claims about ARM performance tend to be qualified by "for the wattage". Yeah, M2 is impressive at a 10 or 20 watt envelope, but once you're looking at 45 and 6

Claims about ARM performance tend to be qualified by "for the wattage". Yeah, M2 is impressive at a 10 or 20 watt envelope, but once you're looking at 45 and 65w parts, it's no longer a washout for Ryzen and Core. If you told the Qualcomm gurus "here's a 200W TDP budget, go to town", would they be able to make the most of it? I suspect when you're making a wattage-no-object desktop part, it opens a whole new candy shop of process and design choices, so you might have to start from a relatively blank slate to use them effectively. I wonder how it would compete with taking a modern x86 CPU and replacing the front-end decoder and microcode with ARM ones-- the other 90% already being optimized for a higher-wattage budget.