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Intel Core Ultra 200V promises Arm-beating battery life without compatibility issues
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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I couldn't find any clarification in the article but in guessing these are still x86_64 and from the description it seems like they've stacked a lot of different components into a single CPU core. Normally both those things would make it a big powerhouse so I'm not sure how it's going to beat arm on baterry which competes by having a smaller simpler ISA that doesn't need as much resources or complexity to process.
People overblow the importance of ISA.
Honestly a lot of the differences are business decisions. There is a balance between price, raw performance and power efficiency. Apple tend to focus exclusively on the latter two at the expense of price, while Intel (and AMD) have a bad habit of chasing cheap raw performance.
Apple does two things that are very expensive:
Those are business decisions that others simply can't afford to follow.
800 is reticle, they're not past that, it doesn't make sense.
They chiplet past 500, the economics break down otherwise.
I don't know if I'm using the right vocabulary, maybe "die size" is the wrong way to describe it. But the Ultra line packages two Max SoCs with a high performance interconnect, so that the whole package does use about 1000 mm^2 of silicon.
My broader point is that much of Apple's performance comes from their willingness to actually use a lot of silicon area to achieve that performance, and it's very expensive to do so.
You could say total die size, but you wouldn't say die, that implies a single cut exposure of silicon.
But agreed, Apple just took all the tricks Intel dabbled with and turned them to 11, Intel was always too cheap because they had crazy volumes (and once upon a time had a good process) and there was no point.