>I still don't understand your argument here though. It's impressive because Apple was able to get first dibs on next generation technology? The M1's performa

>I still don't understand your argument here though. It's impressive because Apple was able to get first dibs on next generation technology? The M1's performance lead wasn't created by a move from TSMC 7nm to TSMC 5nm. See, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184236 The Firestorm cores in the M1 in the M1 get their performance from (among other things) having a very wide core that performs more instructions in a single clock cycle, despite running the cores much more slowly than AMD does. There's a good break down of that and other design advantages here: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...