In a recent interview, AMD’s Director of Technical Marketing, Robert Hallock, explained why Intel took the all-new big.LITTLE approach for designing its 12th Gen Alder Lake x86 processors.
Intel introduced the big. LITTLE approach for x86 CPU designing with its 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs. Like Arm CPU vendors have been doing for a while, Alder Lake marries bigger performance cores (P-core) with smaller efficient cores (E-core). Intel calls the approach » Performance Hybrid » or Big-Bigger. Intel also made specific optimizations so that the Windows 11 scheduler works nicely with this new architecture via its new Thread Director mechanism.
