It did happen before, with a) Apple -look at the benchmarks of Apple chips vs other ARM implementations from past years. The M1 essentially the same SoC as the

It did happen before, with a) Apple -look at the benchmarks of Apple chips vs other ARM implementations from past years. The M1 essentially the same SoC as the current iPad one with more cores and memory. b) with other manufacturers: there have been "wow" CPUs from time to time. Early MIPS chips, The Alpha victorious period of 21064/21164/21264, Pentium Pro, AMD K7, StrongArm (Apple connection here as wel), etc. Then Intel managed to torpedo the fragmented high-performance RISC competition and convinced their patrons to jump ship to the ill-fated Itanium, which led to a long lull in serious competition.