Straight to the conclusion: Because Intel (Intel) originally “can’t do it” (it didn’t want to do it originally, and then it can’t do it now, at least it is currently true), so there is no “limitation” problem.
about”What’s keeping Intel from making chips that are stronger than Apple’s?“This is a big question, in fact, when Intel refused to develop the first-generation iPhone processor for Apple, an internal outbreak broke out”x86 Boxer Rebellion“andSell the most powerful ARM processor at the time XScale, Abandoned Mobile Computing Market,The process technology stopped at 14nm “squeeze toothpaste” for seven years, you don’t need to waste time looking for answers. Without “time of day”, lack of “place,” and lack of “people and people,” what can be “restricted”?
To put it more bluntly, instead of looking forward to x86 duo Intel and AMD “Create a product with a power consumption ratio comparable to that of Apple Silicon”, why don’t you spend more time and ask Qualcomm, MediaTek, and Samsung, who are also major players in the smartphone market, to see the performance of Apple Silicon taillights first, or to settle for the second, let the “user experience” of Android phones The gap with the iPhone is not so obvious? But compared to iOS and iPadOS, the “distance” between Android and end users is always so far away.
Speaking of which, I have to complain about Google. The “user experience” of Android phones has not been as good as that of iPhones for a long time. Shouldn’t Google, who only wants to sell advertisements through Android phones, take more responsibility? Almost regarded as an abandoned Android tablet by Google, many people dare to recommend the iPad to others.
In addition, there is Microsoft, should we be serious?Operating Windows On ARM (WOA)? How many years has it been since the utter failure of Windows RT (the protagonist of the hardware platform or Nvidia, which has been withdrawing from the mobile computing market for a long time)? Regardless of personal computer or data center, if Microsoft does not get the WOA ecosystem right, there will be no “basic disk” for this major processor company. The bits and pieces that happened in the late 1990s are the best lessons learned.
But looking back, no one restricts Intel. If Intel really wants to make a chip with a stronger “energy consumption ratio” than Apple (this place needs to be made clear), what “prerequisites” are needed, it is worth discussing in particular. . Here are the points mentioned earlier:
- Using the most advanced semiconductor process:This is the foundation of everything. In the past, Intel has always been “manufacturing-oriented”, relying on the world’s most advanced semiconductor process to overwhelm its opponents, making the manufacturing business group the most vocal “country within a country”, but now it lags behind TSMC. Intel must first regain its process technology advantage, or process technology will not lose to others (especially low-power optimization, but Intel has paid more attention to transistor performance in the past), then there is a slight chance. Of course, placing an order directly to TSMC is the fastest, but Intel’s product design method must first fully integrate with the industry.
- Seriously develop “mobile phone grade” high energy consumption ratio processor micro-architecture:Not to mention the differences in the instruction set architecture (after all, the same manufacturers who are in the “ARM camp” cannot reach Apple’s level), the reason why Apple SIlicon has an industry-leading energy consumption ratio is that “using mobile phone processors as The foundation, and then slowly pile up”, this is definitely not takingLaptop Processors for Personal Computers“Cut east and west, desperately reduce frequency” is enough to achieve the goal.But for the x86 duo whose main processor micro-architecture has been “server first” for nearly 25 years, it is simply an impossible task (equal toIBM, the ancestor of RISC Can’t make a PowerPC that fits into a MacBook),Intel “Little King Kong”and AMD’s “Cat Zoo”It also falls far short of the level of mobile computing devices. More importantly, following thex86 Boxer Rebellion“After the tragic end, the x86 duo has no possibility of entering the mobile phone market. For them, the profit is too low and the competition is too fierce.
- Operating system vendors should come forward:Modern power management technology is centered on the operating system that “knows what the computer is doing”.The advent of ACPIis the best proof. We have every reason to believe that even if Intel is working hard to make chips that are on par with Apple Silicon (or genuine Apple Silicon), once it runs Android and Windows, it will still die for everyone to see. However, looking at the performance of Google and Microsoft’s own hardware, Apple has been unable to see the back of Apple for a long time. To ask them to do this is nothing short of asking for fish. It is difficult to make up for this huge gap without leading two or three generations of manufacturing processes.
To sum up the above three points, the author can only say: stop thinking about it. “Zhang Fei beat Yue Fei, and he beat the sky all over the sky” This is the author’s only evaluation of the many recent “high opinions”.
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