Intel at CES: Alder Lake looks a lot like M1

arstechnica.com

4 pointsarunbahl4 comments

So, what is this: parallel evolution, where Intel drew more or less the same conclusions as Apple w.r.t. how to build a performant system, or an order from above “Make a presentation that makes people think we’ll have something to compete with M1. We’ll figure out later how to actually do it”?

How far along to being shipped is this design?

I've heard discussion about big/little core designs several years ago, and it's not totally unheard of even before M1 comes out--the Nintendo DS has a big and a little ARM core in it.

That said, a lot of the discussion I've heard about big/little core has tended to be on the order of "the computer architects love pitching the idea; the customers hate it."

I know that, but M1 is much more than big/little.

Rereading the article, it seems mentioning M1 is clickbait.

From what the article says, this is a big/little CPU, nothing more. The article doesn’t mention anything about including all that custom silicon that M1 has in the package, sharing all memory with the GPU, etc.

It's already available in Intel Lakefield processors. They definitely took inspiration from ARM's big.LITTLE architecture, but they've been at it since before the M1 was out.

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