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> nVidia with its cuda still king in this segment

I suspect this will gradually change, perhaps especially now a lot of effort has been made to bring tooling such as PyTorch over to Apple silicon.

> on CPU instead of GPU

But Apple isn't doing it on CPU.

You are thinking in terms of x86 discrete components.

Apple Silicon is a fully integrated architecture including unified memory. That's what makes it so efficient.