X86 isn’t dying, the overhead compared to arm is basically irrelevant these days.
Qualcomm and Apple simply have far more experience in designing ultra low-power SoCs, something that Intel, AMD, and Nvidia haven’t had to do quite yet.
Apple certainly set a new bar in power consumption (especially idle, video playback, and light use) and AMD and Intel have to meet that bar, but it’s not impossible and will be happening in a couple of generations.
Apple currently sits around 0.8W SoC+DRAM power when on a teams call. The benefits of optimizing more are mostly gone, maybe they can hit 0.6W in M3 or M4.
And nothing fundamentally stops AMD or Intel from getting to those numbers.
X86 isn’t dying, the overhead compared to arm is basically irrelevant these days.
Qualcomm and Apple simply have far more experience in designing ultra low-power SoCs, something that Intel, AMD, and Nvidia haven’t had to do quite yet.
Apple certainly set a new bar in power consumption (especially idle, video playback, and light use) and AMD and Intel have to meet that bar, but it’s not impossible and will be happening in a couple of generations.
Apple currently sits around 0.8W SoC+DRAM power when on a teams call. The benefits of optimizing more are mostly gone, maybe they can hit 0.6W in M3 or M4. And nothing fundamentally stops AMD or Intel from getting to those numbers.