Comment by gpderetta

Oh. Apple won this and the last few rounds for sure. They definitely picked the right microarchitecture and delivered masterfully.

Early on personally I had doubts they could scale their CPU to high end desktop performance, but obviously it hasn't been an issue.

My nitpick was purely about using clock per cycle as a performance metric, which is as much nonsense as comparing GHz: AFAIK Apple cpus still top at 4.5 GHz, while the AMD/Intel reach 6Ghz, so obviously the architectures are optimized for different target frequencies (which makes sense: the power costs of a high GHz design are astronomical).

And as an microarchitecture nerd I'm definitely interested in how they can implement such a wide architecture, but wide-ness per-se is not a target.