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Apple's A10 silicon (from the iPhone 7) already beats Intel's 12-core Xeon from the Mac Pro in single-thread.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12939310/iphone-7-a10-fusi...

In a _single_ 100% synthetic benchmark. The apple chip preforms so much better than other comparable arm cores (3-4x faster) on this benchmark I view it with a lot of suspicion.

I can list about 150 programming languages that are "faster than C" if you apply similar restrictions.

http://wiki.c2.com/?AsFastAsCee

Does the A10 have 12 cores? No, it has 2 (technically has 4 but only 2 can be active at any time).

Also it's 4 year old Xeon. If you're going to compare it to a 4 year old Xeon, compare it to the 2 core versions, which will have much higher clocks.

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