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Let's be honest here it was never more than a band aid thrown together in an attempt to keep up with chiplets. Intel is in serious trouble because they still cannot compete with AMD in that regard, it affords them a level of production scalability Intel can currently only dream of.
That's not entirely true, Intel's latest laptop chips are more advanced than AMD's in some regards, specifically when it comes to dividing different workloads amongst different chiplets. But that hasn't led to chips that are actually better for the users yet. On the desktop they still have a long way to go, that still holds true.
Would you happen to be including AMD's new strix point Mobile cpu in that comparison? They seem to be at the very top for mobile CPUs currently.
If you were including those, what workloads is Intel still better at?
Absolutely. Strix Point is great but it's just a monolithic chip, no chiplets are used. Intel's Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake use all kinds of different chiplets called tiles, separate ones for compute, GPU, SoC (with RAM controllers, display driver and a few ultra low power E cores so that compute tiles can be completely switched off at idle) and IO tiles. Different tiles are produced on different node sizes to optimize for cost and performance as needed.
On paper they're very impressive designs, but it hasn't translated to chips that are actually faster or more efficient than AMD's offerings. I'd always choose AMD for a laptop currently, so even with all that impressive tech Intel is still lagging behind.
Oh wow, I didn't realize strix was monolithic. I just assumed it was multi die due to the Zen5c cores.