Yes, you've hit the bulls eye - Apple's M1 performs so well because both the software + hardware are optimised for each other. And that's the real challenge for

Yes, you've hit the bulls eye - Apple's M1 performs so well because both the software + hardware are optimised for each other. And that's the real challenge for AMD / Intel / Qualcomm / Nvidia etc. with their processors. ARM never took off for the desktop because it lacked good software support. Apple has fixed that within its ecosystem. AMD is rumoured to be building a CPU that has both ARM and x86 cores - hope that is true as that will be truly game changing.