Quote from: JayN on November 07, 2021, 14:36:02
I believe the anandtech article also said that Intel knocked 50W off their Rocket Lake's max power while beating its performance ... so, Intel is headed in the right direction.
Intel has their Intel-4 process Meteor Lake powered on in the lab, according to recent presentation. That process/shrink will be more comparable to the tsm N5 that apple is currently using, so the power margin will narrow. It remains to be seen what apple can do on performance/power when moving to pcie5, ddr5 outside the package.
Depends on the task, in some workloads, it peaks a good amount over Rocket Lake. Either way, their 10nm/Intel 7 process doesn't seem very power efficient. Tiger Lake has already shown this for a year now.
As for the next one, yeah, sure, comparable to TSMC N5... but by 2023 (supposedly when Intel wants to launch Meteor Lake) Apple will be shipping N3 chips, maybe even AMD as well (Zen5, Turin).