[huijzer]

Everyone keeps going on about ARM, but isn’t the difference mostly memory latency and throughput? Less waiting for memory means less wasted clock cycles. And probably also hardcore engineering in choosing the right tradeoffs? The x86 "penalty" seems to be mostly a few precent from what I’ve read. Yes x86 wastes some transistors on legacy instructions, but it doesn’t fully explain the year long difference between Apple and Intel and AMD. (Although AMD seems to catch up now and Intel also a bit with their HBM2 chips.) It’s also TSMC and Apple working together on designing a great chip.