A few thing on the Intel x86 Vs Apple ARM.<p>1.Intel is on their 2nd generation FinFET, while TSMC is still on 1st Gen. Intel also provides higher node density and slightly lower power consumption.<p>2.LLVM is good, but not anywhere as good at optimising as Intel Compiler.<p>3.A9X is without L3 Cache which has always shown to add quite a bit of performance for CPU task.<p>Even if Apple somehow don&#x27;t have the above three disadvantage, my guess is that Intel Core M will still wins. But it just show how close Apple is getting into Intel performance territory. Considering We don&#x27;t get any update from Intel, ( Unless Intel surprise us with Kaby Bridge performance improvement ) This year Apple A10 will be interesting compared to Intel and see how close the gap is.