Arm beat expectations in its first post-IPO earnings report Wednesday. Its low-power chip architecture is in nearly every smartphone, replaced Intel’s x86 pr...
quantity of chips sold is irrelevant to my argument. it doesnt change the fact that arm cores cant scale up.
mhz isnt the absolute indicator of speed. it demonstrates how well your architecture can scale up with power consumption, and whether or not the design is capable of something like that. try giving an 8 core arm chip a power budget of 150W and see whether or not it can scale up to draw that much power. a 13900k or 7950x can be given a power budget of anywhere from 45W to 200W. the chip will adjust its clock speeds to fit within your given budget, and its reliable enough that every unit sold will be stable and function at that power budget.
that 2021 article about laptops was riding on a covid sales surge. if you look at more recent data the market has completely corrected itself, and even rebounded in the opposite direction.
supercomputers are a different breed. they tend to work best on highly paralellizable jobs where individual core performance is less important than the sheer number of cores in a cluster, and the quality of interconnects. once again, demonstrates arm’s ability to scale out but still fails to scale up.
quantity of chips sold is irrelevant to my argument. it doesnt change the fact that arm cores cant scale up.
mhz isnt the absolute indicator of speed. it demonstrates how well your architecture can scale up with power consumption, and whether or not the design is capable of something like that. try giving an 8 core arm chip a power budget of 150W and see whether or not it can scale up to draw that much power. a 13900k or 7950x can be given a power budget of anywhere from 45W to 200W. the chip will adjust its clock speeds to fit within your given budget, and its reliable enough that every unit sold will be stable and function at that power budget.
that 2021 article about laptops was riding on a covid sales surge. if you look at more recent data the market has completely corrected itself, and even rebounded in the opposite direction.
supercomputers are a different breed. they tend to work best on highly paralellizable jobs where individual core performance is less important than the sheer number of cores in a cluster, and the quality of interconnects. once again, demonstrates arm’s ability to scale out but still fails to scale up.