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Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple
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Intel is fine. The fact that they are somewhat competetive on their dinosaur fabrication node is crazy by itsself.
Intel is not fine on servers - ARM servers are about 20% faster for outright performance and 40% faster for performance-per-dollar. Since it's literally just selecting a different option in a dropdown menu (assuming your software runs well on ARM, which it probably does these days), why would anyone choose Intel on a server?
And they're not fine no a laptops either - unplugged my ARM Mac from the charger seven hours ago... and I'm at 80% charge right now. Try that with an Intel laptop with an i9 Processor and a discrete NVIDIA GPU (those two would be needed to have similar performance).
They're only really doing well on desktop PCs, which is a small market, and people who can't be bothered changing to a new architecture — a big market but one that is going away.
When you say 20% faster - per what metric? Is that per watt power consumption, per dollar cost?
If it's per either of those, that's pretty impressive, it's a massive difference.