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		toxic72 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on... Probably the Intel CPUs in Macbooks before Apple made the push for the M1 - circa the Intel quad core era where their laptop chips had major heat issues... ~2012 IIRC?

dannyw 6 months ago [–]

I’m not defending Intel here, but those Intel MacBooks never had appropriate thermal design or headroom for the processor’s operating specs.

toasterlovin 6 months ago | [–]

I think the theory is that they had an appropriate thermal design for cpus which were supposed to ship but never did.

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