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> Laptops are increasingly just clients for someone else's compute

Are you kidding? Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.



> Apple's mobile chips are now delivering perf that AMD & intel desktop never could or did.

Most applications don't make aggressive use of the SIMD instructions that modern x86 chips offer, thus you get this impression. :-(


Users do not care why the perf they get is what they get. What good is AVX2048 if nobody uses it?




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