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Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

MacOS doesn't need to throttle performance because ARM and other RISC architectures are naturally very power efficient

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They didn't do it on x86 either I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well those Intel CPUs used to thermal throttle anyway in their outlandishly inadequate cooling designs so they did not need to throttle power either way. Now they could throttle power but don't have to