• simple@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    The people working on Snapdragon X Elite are supposedly the same people that worked on the M1 and M2 chips. They made their own company to make ARM chips before being acquired by qualcomm. I was hoping for similar gains…

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      11 days ago

      …but you’ve got Microsoft writing the OS.

      Power draw is not all hardware.

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      11 days ago

      I’ve been a general skeptic of exactly how much the power and performance to power stats are attributable to the ARM instruction set or architecture versus the fact that Apple just locks up TSMC’s latest and greatest node for a year before everyone else. AMD’s CPUs are still x86_64 but achieve similar performance per watt as the Apple silicon on the same node and similar TDPs.

      So if it turns out that TSMC has the secret sauce, then maybe we don’t need to move laptops over to ARM at all.