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"Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake | Agner's CPU Blog"
(That looks like a link that's doomed to early rot)
tl;dr
The hybrid core design is a compatibility nightmare for the Windows way, while wrecking the utility of AVX512, which is why this enhancement was redacted by Intel.
Also the already-bloated IA is now at epic proportions, with history's so-called compatible architecture a dumping ground (all my language) for an insane number of instruction-set features that do not harmonize to any systems architectural principle. It's a rats nest of complexity that's breaking apart IA into separate product families for applications, without guidance from OS (Microsoft's relationship to IA is more parasitic than collaborative).
My purely personal belief is that the Alder Lake hybrid core design came from Apple's influence, where Apple has been highly motivated for years towards efficiency/performance tradeoffs in mobile.
Intel has always suffered from awkward and uncool system design chops: they depend on others to bring sense to their designs. Apple was a flagship designer for Intel, sidelining the turgid fact that Microsoft has never evolved past Windows 2000. Now that Apple is gone, Intel has lost its one guiding force for evolution of the consumer experience, and we should expect future steps from Intel to be clumsy and regressive. There will not be a restored Intel innovation due to healthy competition from Apple.
Alder Lake is a Wintel Fail.
Meanwhile, the PC is being outclassed by Apple in every dimension, with PC value proposition being relegated to parts-bin enthusiasts at a time when — to me — design synthesis is dearly wanted and needed.
The personal computer must be reinvented as a network device which represents users interests towards their own data, not just a delivery vehicle harnessing eyeballs to 3rd-party proprietary content. Richard Stallman was right for the largest reasons he espoused regarding freedom: control of your own data is essential to maintain custody of your own mind. No one, including Apple is interested in users propriety over their own data.
There's maybe some thin hope on the horizon with approaches like Docker+ Mastadon... A clean Apple hardware unit could still, possibly, become a portal to manage user-propriety hosted environments. But the door is closing. The Apple Store is an abomination.
Microsoft and Google are merely defense contractors.
Intel should see the writing on the wall better than anyone and could be fostering more user-centric models, is still haplessly unaware of the power of software, and instead mindlessly iterating over its historic program of build-it-and-they-will-come gamer HW gimmicks. Apple is in position to enable a new systems synthesis (a la 1984) but they turned into the goggly-eyed overlord in Ridley Scott's Nike/Adidas Commercial, and now can't see past walls of their own garden.
A garden the hackkntosher has been walled out of.
We are a forlorn and dispossessed breed.
(That looks like a link that's doomed to early rot)
tl;dr
The hybrid core design is a compatibility nightmare for the Windows way, while wrecking the utility of AVX512, which is why this enhancement was redacted by Intel.
Also the already-bloated IA is now at epic proportions, with history's so-called compatible architecture a dumping ground (all my language) for an insane number of instruction-set features that do not harmonize to any systems architectural principle. It's a rats nest of complexity that's breaking apart IA into separate product families for applications, without guidance from OS (Microsoft's relationship to IA is more parasitic than collaborative).
My purely personal belief is that the Alder Lake hybrid core design came from Apple's influence, where Apple has been highly motivated for years towards efficiency/performance tradeoffs in mobile.
Intel has always suffered from awkward and uncool system design chops: they depend on others to bring sense to their designs. Apple was a flagship designer for Intel, sidelining the turgid fact that Microsoft has never evolved past Windows 2000. Now that Apple is gone, Intel has lost its one guiding force for evolution of the consumer experience, and we should expect future steps from Intel to be clumsy and regressive. There will not be a restored Intel innovation due to healthy competition from Apple.
Alder Lake is a Wintel Fail.
Meanwhile, the PC is being outclassed by Apple in every dimension, with PC value proposition being relegated to parts-bin enthusiasts at a time when — to me — design synthesis is dearly wanted and needed.
The personal computer must be reinvented as a network device which represents users interests towards their own data, not just a delivery vehicle harnessing eyeballs to 3rd-party proprietary content. Richard Stallman was right for the largest reasons he espoused regarding freedom: control of your own data is essential to maintain custody of your own mind. No one, including Apple is interested in users propriety over their own data.
There's maybe some thin hope on the horizon with approaches like Docker+ Mastadon... A clean Apple hardware unit could still, possibly, become a portal to manage user-propriety hosted environments. But the door is closing. The Apple Store is an abomination.
Microsoft and Google are merely defense contractors.
Intel should see the writing on the wall better than anyone and could be fostering more user-centric models, is still haplessly unaware of the power of software, and instead mindlessly iterating over its historic program of build-it-and-they-will-come gamer HW gimmicks. Apple is in position to enable a new systems synthesis (a la 1984) but they turned into the goggly-eyed overlord in Ridley Scott's Nike/Adidas Commercial, and now can't see past walls of their own garden.
A garden the hackkntosher has been walled out of.
We are a forlorn and dispossessed breed.