The 5nm process is only one part of what makes the M-series so fast and efficient. Yes, RISC is another but much of Intel’s chips are RISC at some levels. A bi

The 5nm process is only one part of what makes the M-series so fast and efficient. Yes, RISC is another but much of Intel’s chips are RISC at some levels. A big part of what makes Apple’s chips so fast is that they optimize them for the needs of the OS. In interviews they have given examples of how to profiled the common operations in the OS and then made sure that those operations were as fast as possible on the chips. that integration is a big part of it. Other hardware and software vendors are not as tightly coupled and don’t do this kind of optimization.