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by ActorNightly 1411 days ago
Apple is not really ahead in chip design. They took mobile phone chips and upscaled them into laptop form.

And the reason they can do that is because they have a tight lock on everything else. Making a generic M1 compatible chip for widespread adoptions is hard. Making it fit into a specific piece of hardware and work with specific software is many orders of magnitude easier.