Put another way: if AMD (and especially Intel) don't do something about this they're going to get completely eaten alive by ARM.
The amount of processing power available in a modern smartphone is truly mind-boggling. I'd love to see a chart showing the chip cost and energy cost of the power on an M1 chip in each previou syear. I would guess that 30+ years ago you'd be in the millions of dollars and watts of power but that's just a guess.
As we see from the modern M1/M2 Macbooks, these lower TDP SoCs are more than capable of running a computer for most people for most things. The need for an Intel or AMD CPU is shrinking. It's still there and very real but the waters are rising.
The amount of processing power available in a modern smartphone is truly mind-boggling. I'd love to see a chart showing the chip cost and energy cost of the power on an M1 chip in each previou syear. I would guess that 30+ years ago you'd be in the millions of dollars and watts of power but that's just a guess.
As we see from the modern M1/M2 Macbooks, these lower TDP SoCs are more than capable of running a computer for most people for most things. The need for an Intel or AMD CPU is shrinking. It's still there and very real but the waters are rising.