IntelUser2000
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We are comparing 10W Haswell to 17W Ivy Bridge, not 10W Haswell to 15W Haswell. Am I wrong in this assumption? Intel has stated that 10W Haswell variants will be equivalent in performance to 17W Ivy Bridge.
And no, the whole point of lower TDP is dependent on the design goals of the OEMs. The beauty of Intel's horizontal strategy is that we have 15 or so companies producing products with different design goals. Price, form factor, battery life, performance, there are several products that are great in each of these categories.
Actually, Intel said 10W Haswell will be equivalent in GRAPHICS performance. Since they can just use much less of the CPU, that means we'll likely see noticeable performance losses. Remember they said Haswell optimizes for Ultrabooks in the 15-17W category. 10W for Haswell is like 17W for Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge, not very optimal.