published in 2012

lmao

isreal is where intel’s test fab and cpu engineering teams are

nvidia will come up with some other funky software bs to try to get people to upgrade to a new gen, while artificially preventing it from running well on previous gen cards or competing products. physx, gameworks, dlss, nvfbc, etc.

intel won this one when apple convinced themselves buying that failing business unit was a good idea.

for the people who will inevitably jailbreak it and make it work with their home PC, or try to run emulators on it.

quantity of chips sold is irrelevant to my argument. it doesnt change the fact that arm cores cant scale up.

mhz isnt the absolute indicator of speed. it demonstrates how well your architecture can scale up with power consumption, and whether or not the design is capable of something like that. try giving an 8 core arm chip a power budget of 150W and see whether or not it can scale up to draw that much power. a 13900k or 7950x can be given a power budget of anywhere from 45W to 200W. the chip will adjust its clock speeds to fit within your given budget, and its reliable enough that every unit sold will be stable and function at that power budget.

that 2021 article about laptops was riding on a covid sales surge. if you look at more recent data the market has completely corrected itself, and even rebounded in the opposite direction.

supercomputers are a different breed. they tend to work best on highly paralellizable jobs where individual core performance is less important than the sheer number of cores in a cluster, and the quality of interconnects. once again, demonstrates arm’s ability to scale out but still fails to scale up.

arm’s biggest obstacle is still its inability to scale up. it can only scale out. intel and amd builds a cpu core that works at anywhere from 1ghz to 6ghz, in a variety of consumer devices or enterprise servers, and a variety of power and cooling profiles. arm builds cpu cores that target low-medium power applications and only that.