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The decline of Intel.. (www.arktrek.shop)

submitted 6 months ago by Dragxito@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] mihies@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's not just node, it's also the design. If I remember properly, ARM has constant instruction length which helps a lot with caching. Anyway, Apple's M CPUs are still way better when it comes to perf/power ratio.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's certainly more complicated than that, but the lithography is a huge part since they can cram more transistors into a smaller area, which is critical for power savings.

I highly doubt instruction decoding is a significant factor, but I'd love to be proven wrong. If you know of a good writeup about it, I'd love to read it.

[–] mihies@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Here, I've found an article. M CPUs are also much more integrated, like a SoC, which gives them further performance/power advantages sacrificing extensibility.