• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    5 months ago

    I think people believe that the ARM ISA brings a power efficient design but what really made Apple able to sip power on the M1 was a decade of phone processor design experience and full control of the software stack.

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      5 months ago

      The people working on Snapdragon X Elite are supposedly the same people that worked on the M1 and M2 chips. They made their own company to make ARM chips before being acquired by qualcomm. I was hoping for similar gains…

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        5 months ago

        …but you’ve got Microsoft writing the OS.

        Power draw is not all hardware.