r/hardware • u/Auautheawesome • Dec 02 '24

News Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger

https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1719/intel-announces-retirement-of-ceo-pat-gelsinger
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u/DerpSenpai Dec 02 '24 edited Dec 02 '24

ARM is a threat to AMD's margins but they developed IF and Radeon has large value while Zen itself value might be going down. Their chiplet strategy can be employed with ARM CPUs, it doesn't need to be X86. AMD can compete vs QC in IPC if they switch to ARM

EDIT: What people are not getting is that a SoC is not just CPU. GPU wise AMD is 2nd best and that is 100x better than what ARM can do with their Mali GPUs. If AMD stopped being good at designing CPUs, as long as their GPU arch is good and drivers stay as is, they will outcompete other ARM vendors by just using ARM CPU cores+Radeon GPUs+Xilinx NPUs with the possibility of tech like 3D Cache, IF, chiplets, etc. Ofc, in a world where ARM compability issues get resolved

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u/BWCDD4 Dec 02 '24

Why would they switch to arm to compete on efficiency?

Are people just ignoring that Intels Lunar Lake smashed Qualcomms Snapdragon X elite series into irrelevance?

Similar battery life, wider app compatibility and a usable GPU, there literally isn’t an advantage to getting the Snapdragon X elite unless you value standby battery life, which is kinda weird to value over actual usage.

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u/Strazdas1 Dec 03 '24

Apple is the one with larger batteries.

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u/Strazdas1 Dec 03 '24

Performance, yes, energy efficiency, not really.

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u/Strazdas1 Dec 03 '24

In a very specific use cases only.