[bombcar]

I suspect we're looking at Apple implementing tick/tock, whether because they're forced to or because they want to - they've already been doing something similar on the iPhones, and supply constraint may make them do it on the chips, too.

Few people are going to upgrade from the M1 to the M2 anyway, so it makes sense to keep powder dry for the M3.

[innocenat]

Intel tick-tock was alternating microarchitecture change with process optimization every other year.

It looks like M2 is neither of those, and it's already 2 year.