Not clear how both Amd and Intel not only lost the smartphone fight but also lost in their own field (aka servers, laptops, desktops)
15 years ago if I told you that windows would be running better on ARM you would call me crazy.
Apple A18 Pro (Q1 2026): Multithread 11977, Single Thread 4043
Intel Core i5-1235U (Q1 2022): Multithread 12605, Single Thread 3084
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On the high-end we got i9-13900KS at about 60k, M5 Max 18 scores about the same. But when you move on to server CPUs like Threadripper and EPYC things are about 3x faster.
Lets see if the brand new Arm AGI changes this situation in a few months.
browserbench speedometer 3.0 on A18 pro - 33, Intel Core i5-1235U - 22
i9-13900KS gets about 33
M4 Pro - 44-50
Try this:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/6693vs7115vs7229vs7232/...
The laptop is in the hands of customers and they are happy for the performance they get.
Also, let's not forget about unified memory impact. Raw cpu benchmarks are only one side of the complex system.
There still are applications where ISA matters, like technical/scientific computing, where the performance can be dominated by array operations or operations with big numbers. For such workloads the x86 CPUs with AVX-512 can provide a performance per watt and per dollar that cannot be reached by the current ARM-based CPUs.