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Originally Posted by PB PM
Intel first announced they would be work on this design last summer, even before M1 was announced, so I don't know if I'd call it a response to M1.
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Yup. There's also Lakefield, which is sort of their first test run of a heterogenous cores:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ures#Lakefield
And it's not like Apple came up with the concept; ARM had it several years earlier as "big.LITTLE"*. To Intel's credit, they had many approaches to dealing with very variable workloads (where sometimes, you need high performance, but much of the time, you really want to save on energy consumption instead) before, such as SpeedStep. Just not this particular one, yet.
*) I'm a bit surprised there isn't a patent thing going on, unless either ARM didn't come up with it either, or both Apple and Intel licensed it from ARM.