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by edub 1327 days ago
A lot of people commenting that MS should not have went with Qualcomm on this device, although I don't think this locks Windows into Qualcomm. More importantly, I'm super curious to see what Qualcomm announces in December in reference to the next generation chips being designed by the Nuvia team (some of the people that designed the M1). ARM is suing to prevent it, but that seems shortsighted, and I assume it will net out that the Nuvia design will launch, but may have to pay some additional license money to ARM.

FWIW the M1 is a little more than twice as fast on GeekBench, but also uses twice the power (TDP). So sort of similar speed score per watt, so possibly they can be within the same ballpark as Apple in the next couple years.