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Why haven't Intel and AMD caught up with Apple Silicon yet? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Champoloo@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Is ARM the only way to get there? And if so, why isn't Microsoft pushing for Windows on ARM? Are they too busy working on Copilot?

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[–] gayspacemarxist@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Caught up how? The main advantage that apple silicon has is their high bandwidth unified memory architecture, but that's really just a high end DDR5 chipset. Which costs a small fortune these days. Afaik Ryzen AI is a newish mobile chipset that supports high speed memory and has a similar unified memory architecture, but I haven't seen a good apples to apples comparison.

Imo the main advantage apple always has is that they sell premium devices. Comparisons with other devices and chips should be drawn by market segment to be useful.