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I feel like the M1 chips kind of broke the timeline. It's like the past ~10 years of Great Intel CPU Stagnation never happened, and we finally now get the mobil

I feel like the M1 chips kind of broke the timeline. It's like the past ~10 years of Great Intel CPU Stagnation never happened, and we finally now get the mobile computers we thought 10 years ago that we would have in 10 years. I think the M1X - or whatever they call the chip line with a much larger thermal envelope - will blow our socks off.

totalZero 6y ago
During those 10 years, mobile went huge and PC demand stagnated. You can look up corporate revenues and news coverage to verify that for yourself, if you don't believe me. It's easy to see how that market environment gave Apple a leg up. Anecdotally, I bought one or two new laptops in the 10 years prior to the pandemic, but I probably bought eight or nine different phones. And while there was a little PC innovation (mainly at the earlier part of that decade), phone hardware got sooo much better. Snapdragon SoC, waterproof flagship phones, awesome cameras, 4G, the whole nine yards. In my mind, M1 is kind of an extension of that smartphone innovation, bridged from iPad and iPhone to the Mac.