Back-to-school laptop shopping is a prime trading period for mobile CPUs, but Lunar Lake might be missing the boat.
  • golli@lemm.ee
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    8 days ago

    I have some questions regarding this article:

    • Was lunar lake actually meant to go on sale in july? I thought it was always Q3, which tracks with the also mentioned September release date. And I wouldn’t call that “end of the year” like in the headline.

    • I know n3b is said to be a poor node, but if Apple used it yields should be good enough to at least have some launch if they really wanted to.

    • I am not sure how much volume AMD usually ships at release for mobile chips, and whether this will be enough to take away major market share from Intel, but I very much doubt that Qualcomm will be a significant factor in doing so (at least right now). The new snapdragon chips are nice, but aren’t really a game changer release like the m1 was at the time. So I doubt consumers will suddenly abandon familiar products for them. Leaving aside that there won’t be that many options with it.