[wpdev_63]

intel is still single thread performance king and will be for the foreseeable future. It's the most important performance metric when considering a desktop processor for most workloads.

While arm is catching up, there is no gaurentee that it will actually be competitive one day, not to mention beat it. Intel is still a beast and spends more in R&D than what amd took in last year. It would be foolhardy to write intel off.

[ricardobeat]

You seem to have missed the part of the article* where the Cortex-A76 matches a core i5-7300 in performance, with much lower TDP. That is planned to come... oh wait, it's already available.

* it's the second paragraph