>There are a lot of challenges to big many-cored chips beyond single-core performance, and we really don't know where they are with that yet, as there are no pu

>There are a lot of challenges to big many-cored chips beyond single-core performance, and we really don't know where they are with that yet, as there are no publicly-available examples of Apple desktop chips. The A12X from 2018's iPad Pro is the sort of chip I'd expect to see in an ARM laptop, and its multicore scores are similar to the top end of 2018 Macbook Pros. 2020's iPad revision didn't get much in the way of processor improvements (just one more GPU core), so the new 16" MBP has pulled ahead with an 8-core i9, but when we get a new iPad based on an A13X or A14X I expect it to be back in that range again. And these are in thin fanless tablets. With a proper cooling system, there's got to be some extra juice to be squeezed out of them.