Absolutely. Strix Point is great but it’s just a monolithic chip, no chiplets are used. Intel’s Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake use all kinds of different chiplets called tiles, separate ones for compute, GPU, SoC (with RAM controllers, display driver and a few ultra low power E cores so that compute tiles can be completely switched off at idle) and IO tiles. Different tiles are produced on different node sizes to optimize for cost and performance as needed.

On paper they’re very impressive designs, but it hasn’t translated to chips that are actually faster or more efficient than AMD’s offerings. I’d always choose AMD for a laptop currently, so even with all that impressive tech Intel is still lagging behind.

That’s not entirely true, Intel’s latest laptop chips are more advanced than AMD’s in some regards, specifically when it comes to dividing different workloads amongst different chiplets. But that hasn’t led to chips that are actually better for the users yet. On the desktop they still have a long way to go, that still holds true.