Pcore, Ecore, 4D...

[ACSAS]

16 core 24 thread Intel chip that has special cores for special tasks, 16 core 32 thread variable voltage amd cores that can handle any task low or high power... I am going to say Intel made another miscalculation in what consumers would want, and Microsoft still can't stop riding that big blue...

[Uptivuptiz]

The new design is a huge blessing for laptop users as it (allegedly) saves more power than the traditional design when the system is performing light tasks. For desktop use I still feel the tradtional design is better because power draw and cooling isn't as big a factor.

My theory is that Intel has realized that it can't keep competing with AMD and in order to keep thermals and power under control under heavy workloads it has resorted to mixing up the design. I say this because even with Intel finally moving to 10nm the new CPUs still draw a lot of power and produce a lot of heat.

[chaotic kronos]

I don't think intel went hybrid because they want . But because its the only way they could be competitive by any mean . Basically 4 E cores takes the space of a single p core. And as intel already pushed its die limit size . They would have to offer outrageous prices to have 16 p cores with a single chip. As manufacturing cost is way higher than the Chiplet design of amd. So basically without hybrid design top intel cpu will be 10 core again and it would get smashed. So the e cores is a great idea having 8 cores in the place of 2 p cores.  However I personally would rather wait for next gen ryzen.  But again that's the best intel could do to be competitive performance/price 

[ACSAS]

I really think that when people hear about AMD 4d, and how every core can act as a big or little core as needed... There will be a whole lot of WTF's thrown at intel and Microsoft for diving into a DOA chip design phones have basically shown sucks anyway.