Where is AMD's competitive chip that came out July 2021?
If you need further evidence of this pattern, look at Nvidia's ridiculous 40-series cards. More expensive than a used car, but they were able to secure TSMC's 4nm node and annihilate everyone else. Apple did the same thing with M1, and it looks like that's what they're gearing up for with M3.
> Battery life was a good few hours shorter than the M1
They do not care about this:
> ...but it was also manufactured on 7nm versus the Apple's 5nm
Power envelopes are reported in very misleading ways by companies, in practice it is not even close. The way they report stuff is having their cake and eat it too: the benchmarks results assume boosting their frequencies above the base one, while the "power envelopes" advertised are on the base frequency. It becomes quite apparent when you run them on battery, where M1/2s continue performing the same as plugged in, and amd/intel laptops underperform, while also not even lasting as much as apple's on battery.
[1] - https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-pro-vs-amd-ry...
[2] - https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/apple-m1-vs-amd-ryzen-...
We’ve been reading for decades that ISAs don’t matter that much anymore, and yet everything that needs good battery life is ARM. Intel was the undisputed manufacturing kind for 40 years or so. Things change.
Seems like node size for the price beats everything else which is what we're talking about here.
Apple's anticompetitive practices are not particularly compelling evidence of some inherent architectural superiority.