>causing people to associate the efficiency gain with the architecture even though a lot of it is the silicon process. They also cause people to associate high

>causing people to associate the efficiency gain with the architecture even though a lot of it is the silicon process. They also cause people to associate higher performance with the architecture, when high-performance ARM is something more or less unique to Apple. Qualcomm (as in, best case for performance that you can actually order a tray of 1000 CPUs from) is several years behind what Apple/Intel/AMD currently offers and as such is simply not competitive with x86 (even in performance/watt); that is one of three reasons why there are very few ARM laptops (the second one is that Qualcomm refuses to do drivers properly, and the third is that their price/performance ratio is positively abysmal). Sure, they're getting better with the acquisition of ex-Apple engineers through Nuvia, but there's still quite a ways to go before they're actually competitive. ARM isn't a magic "make my computer faster" button; chip designers are doing the heavy lifting for any architecture.