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The leading Arm chip (by apple) is arguably the best in class.

Much of Apple's success in the area seems to stem from the fact that they're simply buying other parties out of the latest manufacturing processes, e.g. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/15/apple-has-a-stran...

So if others want to compete, they'll always be a few years behind, since the fab capacity is reserved to Apple. So any competitor either has to magically improve the architecture dramatically - which they can't, since that would require an architectural license which Apple has, but most others don't - or find a fab that can compete with TSMC's latest tech both in terms of price and available volume.

Apple's chips are very power efficent, yes, but the article and parent are talking/asking about raw power. Despite all the Intel hate the past 5 years, I don't think there's been even a moment where another company's leading chip has outperformed Intel's in benchmarks.

See for example https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4922vs5022vs5008vs5189/...

The M2 Pro isn't doing too bad when you consider you're comparing a laptop chip with 14+ hour battery life against Intel's latest and greatest, high-TDP desktop CPU with twice as many cores. On a performance-per-core basis it's not even far behind.

If the TDP is an accurate measure, then the M1 appears to be about as efficient as 12th gen Intel: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/power_performance.html#all-cpu

I wonder if there's some shenanigans going on there. Max TDP in an M1 is surely far lower than the max TDP of an i7-1255U, which it outperforms. Most M1 systems don't even have fans but can perform at max performance for extended times. U-series i7s can also be run fan-less, but performance will be compromised?

>125W

And that is a lie, to achieve those scores it turbos and consumes 300W+ at turbo.

Today, right now, is a moment where AMD's enterprise product are outperforming Intel's in benchmarks.

Except for a very small set of specific use cases, I think anyone recommending Xeon for enterprise solutions is professionally negligent.

Umm, I added a readily available consumer CPU from a different company to your comparison chart.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5022vs5008vs5189vs5031/...

I'm well aware of Apple’s success since I’m surrounded by their devices at home. It seems to me it can’t be attributed only to ARM. What I wonder is where’re someone can match Intel on Intel’s playing field, like supplying ARM chips to laptop manufacturers that are better than Intel.

Is there anything ISA-related in this ? Hardly

Using the last ASML's technology is a big part of the situation Using on-chip memory is another

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