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No, but I have noticed that modified smartphone processors (like Apple’s M series) are now faster and more efficient than traditional desktop and laptop processors. I welcome their introduction into Windows laptops.

I’ve also noticed that there are emerging AI applications that cannot be run on-device by today’s smartphones. I would very much like an LLM Siri that doesn’t need a network connection.

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Calling Apple Mx "a modified phone" CPU is doing it a disservice. It's a synergy of mobile design with desktop design.

what does “a synergy of mobile design and desktop design” mean? It’s the same cores, but more of them. iirc, they’ve made cache structures larger as well.

Most Intel processors are still made on 10nm, which Intel deceptively calls “Intel 7”.

Even the best 10nm processor can’t physically compete with a 3nm one on efficiency.

All of these terms are largely marketing as far as I’m aware, yes Intel is behind in lithography but not by as much as the difference between 3nm and 10nm would suggest and I’m pretty sure the transistor/feature sizes are not 1/3 the size of Intel’s processes.

It will be interesting to see what happens with the Intel 18A process and who builds chips with them. Intel could also rapidly regain the performance crown if these are good processes too.

So Ryzen? Same fabs and nodes as Apple.

Intel 10nm is actually smaller than TSMC N7. It has also had two massive performance upgrades which should put it around and maybe ahead of TSMC N6.

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