Sure, it's a reason for the performance. But it's still not a reason for the performance to price comparison that I was making. Surely a CPU that is on an olde

Sure, it's a reason for the performance. But it's still not a reason for the performance to price comparison that I was making. Surely a CPU that is on an older, more tested node (albeit an Intel node, take that as you will) should have amortized the costs of producing silicon products on that node. The cost of an Apple CPU is cheaper than a worse-performing older CPU. The economics here are surely poor? You can't tell me that Apple of all companies are taking a hit on their new CPUs? I mean, they could be for all I know, but that would be very un-Apple like.