Which is more power-savvy, ARM or x86? Easy answer: ARM.
Unsurprisingly Intel, the company responsible for designing most of the world's x86 chips,
thinks it's not.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-ongoing-conversations-around-arm-vs-x86-power-are-based-on-a-false-premise-says-intel-s-vp-of-technical-marketing/ar-AA1olrj6?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=af396d2dfe744e759056a14914bbe5a4&ei=14
Marketeer here - it’s marketing :)
Intel outright refuses to adopt arm beyond small asic projects …. People inside have been advocating for year , but it’s deemed career su----e if you mention it as an option. They don’t appear to be able to read free room , even when it’s screaming in their faces ! Hence today’s position.
Sky is not blue, but Intel is BSOD
We’ll soon find out
The "New" chip still needs to run X86 and ALL of the legacy overhead. They are going to run Hot and Short.
...."So what you will see from Lunar Lake is x86 powered like you have never seen it before. We relentlessly tackled every single execution engine in this chip to extract the most performance per watt that WE COULD. We touched everything. Graphics, packaging, cores, fabric, every component received an improvement."....
Clever use of words.. Sure it's the best you could do. But the days of Intel pretending it's the end all/ be all of processors are over. The big problem for Hallock is that if Lunar Lake is the best Intel could do - others are doing much .. much better.
Who cares if this is the best Intel could do? There are other solutions outside Intel that are much better.
"It is not x86, it is not ARM that determines power," Hallock told us at the event in May, "it is the physical design of the chip. It is the floor plan of the chip. It is the process technology used, the packaging technology used. It is relentlessly optimising every component in that platform, one watt panels, the most efficient memory, the most efficient SSDs. That is what drives battery life. That is what drives CPU power."
"So what you will see from Lunar Lake is x86 powered like you have never seen it before. We relentlessly tackled every single execution engine in this chip to extract the most performance per watt that we could. We touched everything. Graphics, packaging, cores, fabric, every component received an improvement."