Re:Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake
by urthor on Monday May 16, 2022 @02:31AM
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It's because Intel is behind in process nodes (transistor density) and chiplet technology.
Once Intel is matching AMD for density, Intel will be able to jam far more small cores into a multi chip architecture than AMD will with just "big" cores.
Big/Little is a very important step forward towards core density (and idle power consumption, switching off big cores under load is a huge saver in laptop power usage).
Once Intel is matching AMD for density, Intel will be able to jam far more small cores into a multi chip architecture than AMD will with just "big" cores.
Big/Little is a very important step forward towards core density (and idle power consumption, switching off big cores under load is a huge saver in laptop power usage).