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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 3 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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martinald ◴[12 Nov 20 03:28 UTC] No.25066078[source]▶
What's actually more interesting to me than Intel vs ARM is how much further ahead Apple is vs the competition. The snapdragon 8cx is about 1/3rd the speed in both Single and Multicore performance of the M1.

How is Apple so far ahead even with the same instruction set?

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wmf ◴[12 Nov 20 03:43 UTC] No.25066179[source]▶
ARM laptops have been trapped in a vicious cycle of low performance -> low sales -> low R&D -> low performance. The A78C and X1 cores should help a lot but they still won't match Apple Silicon.

Apple is ahead because they have more money than Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc. combined.

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1. mekster ◴[12 Nov 20 03:52 UTC] No.25066237[source]▶
How big one's pocket isn't usually the driving factor on who does best.

This feels like once again Apple is 5 years ahead of competition just like when iPhone came out.

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2. joshspankit ◴[12 Nov 20 04:03 UTC] No.25066310[source]▶
It might not be the usual driving factor but deep pockets are a powerful tool in the hands of people who know what they are doing, and friction for those who don’t have them.
3. kzrdude ◴[12 Nov 20 07:34 UTC] No.25067420[source]▶
They have incubated this chip arch in their iPhones for five years!