[jackothy]

What is that, 6 years for less than a doubling? Nothing against the Apple chips themselves, but gone are the days of Moore...

[danhon]

Moore was just about the transistor count doubling. Not performance.

[jackothy]

Performance is an excellent proxy for transistor count. Somebody else replied with the actual transistor counts, which had basically equal scaling.

[epicureanideal]

Not necessarily. If single core speed doubled but we also doubled or tripled the number of cores, doesn’t that count as keeping up with Moore?

[jl6]

M1 has 16bn transistors, M4 has 28bn. Increasing the core count is useful for some applications (particularly GPU cores), but there are still many critical workloads that are gated by single-threaded performance.