That's still evolutionary not revolutionary. Every CPU intended for laptops over the last 20 years has been both increasing performance and reducing power consu

That's still evolutionary not revolutionary. Every CPU intended for laptops over the last 20 years has been both increasing performance and reducing power consumption compared to the generation(s) before them. Apple didn't buck a trend, they didn't do anything new. They "just" had a really good execution of the standard, tried & true improvement path. This was the whole marketing push behind projects like Intel Centrino - to drive even lower system power consumption by mandating certain combinations of certain parts that worked well together. Which continued with things like Intel Atheno & Evo. Nothing Apple did with the M1 changed the game. It's the same game, it's the same race it's always been, they just are now in the lead of that race with their car. Which is impressive in its own right, but definitely not "revolutionary" > Less energy means less heat, less heat means you can crank up clock cycles. This goes the other way around. To improve efficiency you reduce the clock cycles and increase IPC instead. That was the M1's advancement over the status quo, a significant increase in IPC. Clock speeds didn't change - in fact, it regressed by a tremendous amount. This regression in clock speed is how the M1 consumes so little power by comparison.