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Well, the WWDC rumors have been talking about ARM macs for weeks. If you were TSMC or Fujitsu and wanted to take advantage of a day where ARM was trending, you could schedule the announcement around WWDC without cooperating with Apple.

For the Top500 lists in particular, the list always comes out during the international supercomputing and supercomputing conferences in June and November respectively, so I’m sure there was no coordination. No idea about the TSMC thing, but I doubt it.

TOP500 always comes out at ISC and SC. Whenever Apple does their announcements is up to them.