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> Personally I don't really see a point in having a hybrid architecture like this unless it'll lead to massively increased core counts

What about massively reduced energy consumption and associated loss of head dissipation/noise and increased battery life? Isn't that why Apple and mobile phone SoCs introduced that design in the first place?

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Yeah, that too, but as I've said, right now compared to AMD this advantage seems to not be there for Intel, and personally I mostly care about desktops where power consumption isn't as important as raw power.

> What about massively reduced energy consumption and associated loss of head dissipation/noise and increased battery life?

I hope their drivers would work properly with the OS. Else, the user would be locked on either the performance cores or the efficiency cores - it happens with laptops with dual graphics card (intel inbuilt and high performance Nvidia or AMD graphics)

Intel Thread Director has already been included in latest Linux kernel.

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