"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.”

    • @simple@lemm.eeEnglish
      8•8 months ago

      M2 Max chips are close to the high end i9, but the M series cpus are mobile chips. They’re designed for laptops. If competition is a bit harder then no doubt desktop-focused ARM CPUs will match their performance soon.

      • AzureKevinEnglish
        2•8 months ago

        AFAIK they’re large chips though, and larger generally is more performance but also much more expensive to manufacture.

        • @Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
          -5•8 months ago

          It’s often faster. Usecases vary and for a lot of workflows, there’s nothing as fast as Apple Silicon at the consumer level.

          • @zik@zorg.socialEnglish
            2•8 months ago

            Basically few to non-existent cases where M2 is faster than either Intel or AMD’s best. On power consumption however it’s a total win for Apple. But performance… No. Not in any way.

            • ASeriesOfPoorChoicesEnglish
              -2•8 months ago

              1. Article is about laptop cpus.

              2. M2 is the budget entry chip. M2 Pro/Max is a big jump up.

              3. there’s basically nothing out there for laptops that comes close to the M2 Pro.

              4. the only benefit Intel/AMD have right now is access to external and better graphics chips made by companies that aren’t Intel.

              5. desktops / servers are a different matter, but again, the article is talking about laptops.

              • @zik@zorg.socialEnglish
                2•8 months ago

                there’s basically nothing out there for laptops that comes close to the M2 Pro

                The Intel Core i9-13980HX laptop CPU is between 20% and 100% faster than the M2 Max on nearly every benchmark.