The OP was criticizing all vendors for dropping the ball on "gigantic memory bandwidth, 8-way decode, re-order buffers twice as deep, specialized instructions for x86 translation and reference counting". A64FX has all that (incl. assistant cores in addition to the regular ones and on-chip RAM with HBM interface) AND SVE, not just bare SVE as your comment seems to imply. And of course a big redesign would be necessary, I never implied it's ready to be put in the next MS Surface. But screaming that all processor vendors are 100 years behind Apple is a bit questionable.

So my thoughts were: cool, Apple is bringing some of the processor developments to mass market that I didn't think would hit the market for another 5 years. I am just a bit sad to see everyone (esp on HN) saying it was never seen before.

The Fujitsu chip is amazing too! But I am only familiar with common desktop and laptop CPUs, not HPC specialty hardware.

Sounds like part of the special sauce in the M1 is bringing supercomputer architecture to laptops. That seems like an amazing feat too.

Also, I don't think I was "screaming" about "100 years". Maybe you are thinking of someone else's comment?