Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max

Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max by emn13 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @08:52AM (#29025479)

The claim I've heard is that intel 7 (previously 10nm) is approximately as good as tsmc's 7nm (but which 7nm?). It sounds like most reviewers seem willing to accept that it's at least a good enough match that you're unlikely to do better.

I mean, those literal nm measurements had no reasonably obvious basis in measurement for either intel or TSMC even before the intel rebrand, so...

It'd be nice if they advertised with a few real benchmarks (e.g. logic density + sram density, some kind of clockspeed metric, some kind of powerleakage metric)... but as is, it's just a branch anyhow.

Whether it "is" a 10nm process depends on what your definition of "is" is ;-). It's certainly not the case that a transistor is 10nm large, not even close.

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Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max by liuliu on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:25PM (#29032819)

Definitely, no argument here. I meant Intel 7 is the previous Intel's 10nm. It is confusing in my parent thread where the commenter uses Intel 7nm, which is not a thing in any case.

Of course, this is probably all intentional from Intel's point of view (letting people say "Intel 7nm" rather than "Intel 7").

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