"They've been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business."

Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market::“They’ve been relegated to pretty insignificant roles in the PC business.”

  • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    What are those reasons that you think are so obvious? I have no idea what you could be referring to 😅

    • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      ARM is more efficient and as a “system on chip” reduces the need for as many other components on the boards, phones for example. Unless you’re doing heavy cpu or gpu intensive tasks there’s a bunch of upsides and no downsides to ARM.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s my impression as well. I’m confused about the “just”. There’s many non-portable devices that don’t have too heavy workloads and that I’d think would benefit from better energy efficiency.

        • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Oh yeah the article is about the laptop market, but of course all sort of non-portable devices run on non-x86 platform. I’d even say x86 is the minority unless you reduce it to just desktop workstations.

    • neeshie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Arm tends to be a lot more power efficient, so you can get better battery life on portable devices.

      • flying_sheep@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        And lower power consumption and heat production on all devices, so I don’t get the “just”