I know we’re all pretty mad at Intel right now but I really hope they do manage to recover because we’ve all seen what happens to the industry when there’s no competition.
It may be that other companies can compete using ARM/RISC architectures. The only reason the current duopoly exists is the cross licensing between x64 and x86, now that apple has proved ARM can be competitive we will see what happens there!
Already are. Several manufacturers are delving into the ARMs race (get it?). They can’t yet quite compete on the same level as Apple’s silicon in every metric, but a few more years, and they’ll likely have general feature parity.
An ARM laptop that can run mainline Linux out of the box and performs at an M1 level or better would be phenomenal. Sign me up.
I salivate at the thought of Framework making such a motherboard.
Right? We’re not there yet, but I bet we will be in the next 5-10 years.
Hoping to be at the point Apple was 4 years ago in 5-10 years is kinda sad.
I meant more that they’d be at feature parity with whatever current gen Apple is on. They’re already close or better in some metrics, but Apple silicon is still the clear overall winner.
I wish they’d start competing on power efficiency and performance per watt. Intel wouldn’t have had this issue if they’d make a CPU that runs at reasonable power consumption, and laptops suffer because of it.
They have such chips, like N100 or i3-305, but that won’t cut it for more demanding users.
I’ve been trying to find a cheap N100 laptop to test, but I’ve tried some of their previous “economy core” powered machines and they neither get performance nor battery life. Race to idle is legitimately a good thing, but those machines are just too under powered to ever get to idle so they never get good battery life.
Under a load they get good battery life, but trying to use the computer as a computer they suck. One of these machines takes like 30 minutes for windows update to do a basic update. And the entire time the machine is unusably slow because of it. I installed linux on there and not having windows update ruining things made it tolerable, but still pretty bad for what on paper should have been enough.
I ordered mini pc equipped with N100 couple days back with intention to build home “NAS” with it and couple more services running. I think it’s perfect for this, but don’t have it in my hands yet.
Intel is a huge company. There’s no way the US government lets them go under. The effects on national security would be disastrous.
Not only that, Intel is the only hedge against China deciding to go ahead with its invasion of Taiwan and destroying the western computer chip lead.
Though IMO government funds like CHIPs should be issued via stock buys instead of grants. Especially if it’s a bailout. And the government, as an investor, should be looking out for the public’s best interest rather than purely seeking profit.
Getting a new computer this week, and I’ll stay away from Intel!
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