Better single thread performance is always a nice win because it is immediately perceivable on unmodified software. I believe Intel is still counting on using

Better single thread performance is always a nice win because it is immediately perceivable on unmodified software. I believe Intel is still counting on using x4 PCIE4 for SSDs. I wonder if the PCI-E 5 x16 makes any difference for the GPUs? DDR5 may bring in nice capacity boosts. However, I read somewhere that at lower capacities it is almost indistinguishable perf wise from high-end DDR4. The key to M1's attraction is the cohesiveness of its implementation. Apple can make MacOS tightly knit to the heterogenous core types and caches. and essentially gate keep applications to behave optimally. From Intel's announcements, it looks like Intel came up with Thread Director to _advice_ Windows on how to schedule stuff and leave it to MS to implement things. Not sure how that synergy is going to take shape. Perhaps Linux will come out and eat this. if AMD can improve on Zen 3 and come up with Zen 4, they already provide much more PCI-E lanes and ECC on DDR4/DDR5 memory support, with better than intel multi-threading perf. Competition sure is nice!