Lies, damn lies, and benchmarking. Benchmarks have been critical to Intel marketing its chips over 30 years, regardless as to whether or not they improve user

Lies, damn lies, and benchmarking. Benchmarks have been critical to Intel marketing its chips over 30 years, regardless as to whether or not they improve user experience (Netburst, the death of Ghz growth). And intel's business practices show it will stop at nothing, business or technical, to enhance monopoly and reduce competition. Intel's compilers are a great example of of the yin and yang of intel's history: unquestioned technical value, but laced with noisome monopolistic practices. Pieces like this are inevitable, given the media reach of Intel, and the basic practice of a large behemoth of distraction and denial when broadsided with a genuinely new and dangerous weapon: slow the adoption until some response can be mustered. What is clear from the reviews of M1 is that Apple has achieved something Intel really hasn't in a decade: tangible improvement to the user experience between temperature, battery life, and startup time.