Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.
Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.