The first 4 minute mile was revolutionary. It’s not ordinary today, but isn’t super surprising either. Apple bet big that we hasn’t hit the limits of how wide

The first 4 minute mile was revolutionary. It’s not ordinary today, but isn’t super surprising either. Apple bet big that we hasn’t hit the limits of how wide a machine can go. They created ARM64 to push this idea as it tries to eliminate things that make this hard. Everyone wrote off iPhone performance as mobile only and not really representative of performance on a “real” computer. M1 changed that and set the clock ticking. Once everyone realized it was possible, they needed to adjust future plans and start work on their own copy (with companies like Nuvia having a head start in accepting the new way of things due to leadership who believed in M1 performance). In the next few years, very wide machines will just be the way things are done and while they won’t be hyper common, they won’t be surprising either.