High performance doing what? Everyone in high-performance computing is using Linux, my dude. Unless you're a studio who needs specific Mac workflows, or maybe you're doing LLM work?
Great perf-to-watt, but absolutely locked down so you can't do anything meaningful in the embedded space. I'm not over here mounting a max specced Mac Mini just to get that perf-to-watt.
anyway, the point was about the obsolesence or other of the ISA. It was about the claim that various versions of apple silicon are no good for performance, only for perf-per-watt or some related variance.
I agree with your second point, but misstating the age of a 6-year-old CPU as 4 years old will tend to throw off the equations, considering how fast this field moves. I would also note that the Zen/Zen+ CPUs were truly awful. Ryzen and EPYC did not have a good implementation until Zen 2.
Great perf-to-watt, but absolutely locked down so you can't do anything meaningful in the embedded space. I'm not over here mounting a max specced Mac Mini just to get that perf-to-watt.
We're using low TDP x86-64 when we need that.