That’s true, except Apple silicon has been well ahead of competing CPUs in performance even back when it was on the same or similar nodes. Remember half of the

That’s true, except Apple silicon has been well ahead of competing CPUs in performance even back when it was on the same or similar nodes. Remember half of the first 64 bit Apple ARM cores were fabbed by Samsung. They only moved completely off Samsung fabs in 2014. So yes undoubtedly having exclusive early access to the latest TSMC nodes helps but we know that’s not the whole story. They were thrashing Samsung in their own fabs for years. The main reason is Apple has the profit margins to be able to afford to use large chips with lots of cache and plenty of premium features. Look at the M1 architecture, those chips are monsters. Android OEMs don’t have the margins, so are trapped in a race to the bottom against each other.