So many smart best things going on on PL. Xe3 GPU looks amazing, especially the 12 core one. I love the extra low power core on the soc chiplet, allowing the main CPU chiplet to post down. Intel's EIMB is great, such an advanced interconnect for low power multi-chip. 18a and backside power. Excellent stuff!
Hard to blame them though for abandoning consumer market, like is happening with the entire rest of the computing market. Why make cores if the rest of the computer is too ghastly expensive to afford?
The headline is odd to me given that the article spent so much time comparing it to M5 and still loses considerably to the M5 in single core (199 vs 130).
And it only wins in multi-core simply because it has 16-cores while the M5 base only has 10-cores.
When Apple launches the M5 Pro and/or Ultra this won't be the case.
The reviewed MSI looks like a great 2-in-1, but a laptop is also more than its CPU and RAM. The MBP's screen has substantially higher resolution and brightness and refresh rate, for instance. I'm not saying the MSI isn't a good deal, just that it's not reasonable to compare the prices of two laptops like that.
The vast majority of the PC computing world still uses Windows, which doesn’t run on Macs, and Windows on ARM is still in its infancy. An Intel-based chip that’s on par with Apple Silicon is much desired by the marketplace.
AMD is already serving that segment, and quite successfully, too. I would assume Panther Lake is an improvement for Intel, most notably in the I/O department, but is it really "on par" even with the recent Ryzen variants, let alone Apple Silicon?
Unfortunately Intel also isn't interested in making Panther Lake:
> "We can’t completely vacate the client market," said Zinsner, but Intel is "shifting as much as we can over to data center to meet the high demand."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/core-ultra-series-3-...
So many smart best things going on on PL. Xe3 GPU looks amazing, especially the 12 core one. I love the extra low power core on the soc chiplet, allowing the main CPU chiplet to post down. Intel's EIMB is great, such an advanced interconnect for low power multi-chip. 18a and backside power. Excellent stuff!
Hard to blame them though for abandoning consumer market, like is happening with the entire rest of the computing market. Why make cores if the rest of the computer is too ghastly expensive to afford?
The headline is odd to me given that the article spent so much time comparing it to M5 and still loses considerably to the M5 in single core (199 vs 130).
And it only wins in multi-core simply because it has 16-cores while the M5 base only has 10-cores.
When Apple launches the M5 Pro and/or Ultra this won't be the case.
The reviewed laptop is 14" 32GB 1TB $1,299.
14-inch MacBook Pro M5 with 24GB $1,999.
Intel is -35% price, +60% cores, and most importantly given the 4x prices +33% RAM.
And you can run Windows games and Linux on it.
The reviewed MSI looks like a great 2-in-1, but a laptop is also more than its CPU and RAM. The MBP's screen has substantially higher resolution and brightness and refresh rate, for instance. I'm not saying the MSI isn't a good deal, just that it's not reasonable to compare the prices of two laptops like that.
The vast majority of the PC computing world still uses Windows, which doesn’t run on Macs, and Windows on ARM is still in its infancy. An Intel-based chip that’s on par with Apple Silicon is much desired by the marketplace.
AMD is already serving that segment, and quite successfully, too. I would assume Panther Lake is an improvement for Intel, most notably in the I/O department, but is it really "on par" even with the recent Ryzen variants, let alone Apple Silicon?
How is Linux support on the M5? There is more to a CPU or system than a single benchmark number.
Ashai linux people are still working on support. They just posted support for M3.
So it's useless to me.
Note that parts of this line are still manufactured by TSMC. Intel is still not there in terms of fab self-sufficiency.