Weekend project? I thought the Apple chips were getting pretty competitive with Intel chips despite the thermal/power constraints of a phone. I thought AMD wa

Weekend project? I thought the Apple chips were getting pretty competitive with Intel chips despite the thermal/power constraints of a phone. I thought AMD was getting really catching up with Ryzen and thread-ripper. I thought Intel was slowing from tick-tock to tick-tock-tweak. I thought Intel had a couple of large layoffs in the past years which axed a lot of their older^w underperforming workers. Are they truly still such a powerhouse?