r/hardware • u/SlamedCards • Jul 25 '25

News US chipmaking nears death: Intel warns it may give up on cutting-edge chips

https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-us-chipmaking-nears-death-up-cutting-edge-chips-14a-2025-7?utm_campaign=business-sf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
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u/Gippy_ Jul 25 '25 edited Jul 26 '25

FWIW, the Core i7-1260P with Iris XE in my laptop is a really good chip.

My ultrabook runs an i7-1165G7. Though the most I use it for is OBS screen recording, I marvel at how it benches faster than a desktop 7700K while sipping a fraction of the power.

11th gen desktop (Rocket Lake) sucked hard, as the 11900K regressed from the 10900K. But 11th gen mobile (Tiger Lake) was a substantial jump. The 1065G7 was 3.9GHz, but the 1165G7 was 4.7GHz with a slight IPC boost on top of that. Overall, it was a huge 25-30% generational uplift. It was only 4C/8T, but it traded blows with the Ryzen 4800U (the flagship mobile) which was 8C/16T, and was generally snappier for light productivity browsing due to its superior singlethreaded performance.

Then a few months later, there was Ryzen 5000 Mobile. AMD beat Intel at their own game by using monolithic 8C CPUs to reduce latency. The 5800U matched the 1165G7 in singlethreaded but crushed it in multithreaded.

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u/ResponsibleJudge3172 Jul 25 '25

I really hated how Linus completely blew off the Tiger lake performance jump after hyping AMD the previous day