3 - The instruction set is made of fixed length instructions TBH there are various mostly-Apple/TSMC-"exclusive" tricks too, for why their chips are better tha

3 - The instruction set is made of fixed length instructions TBH there are various mostly-Apple/TSMC-"exclusive" tricks too, for why their chips are better than the others: A - On Apple Silicon, pages are larger, but not too large B - there are various accelerators leveraged by libraries provided in the OS (or the provided toolchains, etc.) C - Apple got to use the best TSMC process years before the competition. D - TSMC is ahead (I'm curious of what Zen4 will give on laptop, btw) So it's mixed. The ARM ISA probably plays a small role in the perf of Apple Silicon vs. x86 chips, but is probably not the main cause of the perf gap.