> Come on, there’s no way you wrote that down unironically and didn’t struggle breathing through the strong chemical copium smells.

What a way to out yourself as some kind of irrational zealot.

>> goes into barring the competition from accessing the current nodes at TSMC

> I know it’s en vogue to hate on Apple […] when in reality they’ve continued to make exponential improvements on their silicon platform.

Have they? M3 to M4 is roughly 20% more perfs for 10% higher TDP.

> What are you on about? They’ve essentially been in a league of their own since the M1

Are they?

> Take AMD’s HX 370 for example,

Indeed, AMD is *very* close perfs-wise, while sitting on TSMC's 4nm, versus the new M4 Pro's 3mn Gen2.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6143vs6346/AMD-Ryzen-AI...

> It still struggled to provide a PPA similar to the M1 Pro

…and not far-off when talking energy efficiency, again, with a whole gen of difference

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Zen-5-Strix-Point-CPU-anal...

so, within single digit precents.

I'm not taking away from Apple's push towards ARM, that was ballsy, and well executed (also, they had little choice but to ditch Intel, and with AMD not being an option it's pretty obvious in retrospect). That said, I'm tired of the rhetoric and attitude that somehow Apple's chips are made of angel dust or something, especially on this "tech"/"science" forum.

> You’ve got it mixed up. Apple has never cared about raw specs, but they always have and always will care about performance.

Apple a decade and a half ago was selling you "unique" products or clever features. Today's Apple announcements is Tim showing you benchmarks.

> I don’t know about you but single-handedly making x86_64 look like an ancient joke

No, they haven't. They did put intel to shame, but so did AMD, and that came as a surprise to nobody.