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I almost didn't want to upvote this because it was at 486 points. I'm sure anything close to the same performance as the Intel chips will have better battery l

I almost didn't want to upvote this because it was at 486 points. I'm sure anything close to the same performance as the Intel chips will have better battery life, especially since they can put in as fine-grained support for throttling and idling as they want. These should cost them loads less per unit than what Intel's selling them, too. They could cut prices a bit and still have higher margins.

StillBored 6y ago
This is likely a larger reason for the move than the perf/efficiency. Apple likes to ship "premium" products, which forces them into the premium/high margin price tiers with intel/etc. So they will gain a bit with a product laser focused on its market, but alongside that, they won't be paying the kings ransom intel wants for a couple additional cores, or a couple Mhz boost. So they can simplify the binning into best in class, and good yields for the volume product, and pocket the margins on the best in class product segment rather than giving it all to intel.