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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."

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[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.world 0 points 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.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Not only that but also reducing the number of chips that need to be powered helps with efficiency.