AMD has traditionally been exactly 1 year behind Apple's adoption of the newest node. This is not new.
Apple itself has been doing tick-tock on nodes/arch since the A4. The longest they stay on any one node for new iPhone generations has been two years. They have done moves to enhanced versions of nodes in less than one year before as well, like 20nm->16nm which is the same node + FinFet in TSMC/Samsung speak. It is really an enhanced 20nm.
This would be just like the rumored 'N5->N4' move. N4 is just an enhanced N5. But that is one year to the next. They have always gone to a major new node every 2 years.
Until this year. This will be the 3rd year Apple is using the same node, for the first time, ever.
But yeah, everything is fine, TSMC can do no wrong, Intel will never catch them, and so on and so forth.
I am just here to see how the cognitive dissonance plays out.
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