The headline here seems misleading: (1) It's an iPad CPU running x86_64 code in emulation, but it's running macOS, not iPadOS. This is not an iPad, which AFAIK

The headline here seems misleading: (1) It's an iPad CPU running x86_64 code in emulation, but it's running macOS, not iPadOS. This is not an iPad, which AFAIK can't run x86_64 code in emulation. (2) It's a two-year-old chip, not a one-year-old one. :) The whole thing is a little weird; if I'm understanding it correctly, they ran the Windows ARM version of Geekbench natively on the Surface X, and ran the macOS x86_64 version of Geekbench on the ARM-based Developer Transition Kit hardware and it still performed competitively. So Apple's CPUs are pretty good and Rosetta 2 does really good instruction translation, but I don't think we can draw a lot of conclusions from the specific numbers either way. (Even setting aside complaints about Geekbench as a benchmark, commercially available ARM Macs when they start shipping are almost certainly not going to based on the DTK CPU/hardware, just like the original Intel DTK compared to the first Intel Macs.)