indemnity 5 days ago

Probably Intel’s fumble when Apple asked them for better performance per watt for the laptop CPUs and whether they wanted the iPhone CPU business back in 2006.

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  • chasil 5 days ago

    A more recent motivation might be Apple's switch to in-house ARM for MacOS for similar reasons.

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    • dannyw 5 days ago

      Well, they’re already funding so much ARM custom design, it’s not that incremental to tweak and scale for their laptops.

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toxic72 5 days ago

Probably the Intel CPUs in Macbooks before Apple made the push for the M1 - circa the Intel quad core era where their laptop chips had major heat issues... ~2012 IIRC?

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  • dannyw 5 days ago

    I’m not defending Intel here, but those Intel MacBooks never had appropriate thermal design or headroom for the processor’s operating specs.

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    • toasterlovin 5 days ago

      I think the theory is that they had an appropriate thermal design for cpus which were supposed to ship but never did.

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