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Are you specifically referring to high performance in the context of servers or workstations? My impression has been that Apple is absolutely dominating in the

• StillBored 7y ago
  They are just using off the shelf fab space. OTOH, they do a fine job of building a custom core for a specific purpose. That means they can tune and remove functionality they don't need for their particular application set. As someone else mentioned in this thread apparently they don't implement EL2 which is the virtualization layer on armv8. Yet their die sizes a huge and they are targeting a pretty narrow frequency range. So It doesn't really take much to eak out a few 10's of percent here/there to create a product that looks better than a generic core from ARM + a generic OS tuned more for servers (linux) with a JIT'ed GUI. I've seen cases where just pulling compiler flags on an application yield a larger difference than what is seen between top end android and apple phones.
• ActorNightly 7y ago
  They can do mobile for sure, but even then the chips that they use are not really ahead in performance intrinsically, they are just bigger (and generally more expensive) which naturally gives them better performance. And a lot of the speed improvements comes from just better direct compilation rather than JIT like Android does. For server architecture, Apple has never been competitive. The only reason to get Mac workstations in the past before was that they were more stable than the Windows counterparts, but those days are long gone.