>one time boost That's not what you would expect if you look at the graph of six years of year-over-year SPEC performance gains on iPhone cores. Their history

>one time boost That's not what you would expect if you look at the graph of six years of year-over-year SPEC performance gains on iPhone cores. Their history shows a pretty reliable 20% gain per year. >Whilst in the past 5 years Intel has managed to increase their best single-thread performance by about 28%, Apple has managed to improve their designs by 198%, or 2.98x (let’s call it 3x) the performance of the Apple A9 of late 2015. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...