Looks like a solid CPU. A strong ARM option in the Windows market would help to accelerate the Windows ARM offering, which would be great.
It barely beats the base M2 chip in single core by 8%, while drawing 80 watts. At 23 watts it matches in single core. The apple chip running 1Ghz lower nearly.
The competition is still trying to catch up to Apple’s 2021 chips in mid 2024, while Apple is releasing a new faster chip today.
Apple is still a whole generation ahead of the competition here.
Qualcomm isnt competing with the M2 though. It will be directly against Meteor Lake, Zen 4, Zen 5 and probably Lunar Lake too.
On Apple’s side it will be going against M3, but as we’ve already seen M1 and M2 didnt drastically change Apple’s Mac market share, people who want Windows buy Windows, people who want Mac buy Mac, performance difference dont change this dynamic.
Apple scheduled a very unusual night meeting at 8pm EST (5pm PST) this evening. They didn’t give tons of notice and I believe they didn’t announce until after the Qualcomm event either.
I think this unveiling has lit a fire under them and they are worried.
Good times for consumers.
The worst thing that can happen for apple is that they have to be more clever / careful with the graphs and language they use for their keynotes and websites.
I personally think it goes like this: Qualcomm got hold of Apple was announcing M3 soon so they asked Apple when that would be so they could keep their performance claims, and Apple gave them the go ahead
Really curious about the die area and transistor count. 12 P-core with that kind of IPC must be gigantic.
Was a little bit lower than the die area of a Ryzen 7 7840U actually
Yeah I was really surprised seeing the numbers.
That CPU is built by the same engineers who designed Apple’s A-series processors, which later scaled up to the M-series found in its laptops.
Haha, imagine being so good at your job your only competition is you.
Those are some pretty decent results actually. Although even if it was twice as fast, it still needs to search for a market. Macs have had a good value when their HW configurations were pretty awful simply because of the tight OSX integration and the ecosystem. And with x86 you get the widest most complete software ecosystem. ARM Windows is still very distant third and laptop Linux market is hardly worth mentioning. Though I think the 23W version undervolted could be great in an Android tablet.
I would wager that there are more linux laptops than WOA ones right now. Third place is probably chromeos.
Apple Event this night will be really interesting.
Seeing “dunking” in an article title really urges me to immediately discard the entire article, their author and the media outlet with it. Such language is a hallmark of professional journalism, isn’t it?