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by totalZero 1607 days ago
They reduce power consumption and thermal management needs. That means more compute per a given battery constraint or thermal envelope. High-end mobile phones and laptops benefit.
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Is consumer computing really the major demand now and going forward. Or is it senors, automation, networking, and cloud compute?

And I can almost garuentee it's better for the environment if I continue using my device or an old one rather than upgrading to the new iphone soon.

Thankfully web developers took care of that.