Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie?

Re:Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie? by saagarjha on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:26PM (#18870740)

> A11X or whatever with nice artifcal benchmark scores doesn't interest me. It's a shut in that can't communicate with the outside world and barely competes with an obsolete i5 3540 from 2012.

A12X (there is no A11X) is only "shut in" because it runs iOS. Other than that, it's similar in power to the chips in MacBooks.

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Re:Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie? by ken on Thursday January 10, 2019 @01:53AM (#18872035)

That's a pretty big shut-in. Unless you're going to run a server farm full of iPads, it's useless to anyone outside of Apple.

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Re:Is ARM Hungry Enough to Eat Intel's Favorite Pie? by saagarjha on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:05AM (#18872305)

The chips in iPads are thermally constrained, so they would not do well in continuous loads. But if Apple were to ship an ARM Mac with a good TDP, this might change.

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