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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | 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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1. bsder ◴[12 Nov 20 04:02 UTC] No.25066303[source]▶
> How is Apple so far ahead even with the same instruction set?

Single customer. Apple can optimize directly for iOS workload and consider nothing else.

Intel sells into the general market and has to hit sometimes conflicting goals so that Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc. will all buy their chip.