[dijit]

the whole premise of this thread is that this reputation isnt fully justified, and thats one I agree with.

Intel for the last 10 years has been saying “if your CPU isn't 100c then theres performance on the table”.

They also drastically underplayed TDP compared to, say, AMD, by taking the average TDP with frequency scaling taken into consideration.

I can easily see Intel marketing to Apple that their CPUs would be fine with 10w of cooling with Intel knowing that that they wont perform as well, and Apple thinking that there will be a generational improvement on thermal efficiency.