Originally posted by microcode
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Are they aiming to match every performance metric of the i5-7300U?
Just standard scalar code performance?
Are we really supposed to believe that two thirds of the power budget of the i5-7300U is "things intel hasn't figured out" and "x86 overhead"?
In ARMs case and probably a goal at Apple, they can pare the processor down to just what the modern 64 bit world needs. I say probably Apple due to their very agressive guidance to developer to move their apps to the 64 bit processors and libraries. When the bulk of the libray of apps is 64 bits they can easily drop all hardware in their processors supporting ARMs old 32 bit architectures. The end result should be a very clean 64 bit processor implementation reducing size, thermals and increasing performance.
So yeah Intel isnt the technology leader in low power and frankly never have been.
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