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TBH the main thing remaining is for Apple to integrate the modem into the SoC. Samsung only use Snapdragon in the US because of the modem differences there. Exynos is everywhere else. Exynos really is the closest chip in spirit to Apple's (because only Samsung use them these days), but Samsung don't appear to care too much about leading the market, instead being content to roughly match the equivalent Snapdragon in performance. The M1, M2 cores that Samsung uses appear to be lightly modified basic ARM core designs. Even Qualcomm have gone this direction with their latest Kryo cores. Apple have taken control of their chip design future, and have the money and the sales to drive this forward for the foreseeable future. It's unlikely that ARM is going to launch a mobile core that will compete on single-threaded performance anytime soon, and now that Apple have fixed their multi-core processing to use all cores, even the traditional "octo-core" method for other SoCs to get great scores has been surpassed. I can't see any other SoC outperforming the A series SoCs in CPU/GPU for many years (Kirin 970 on-paper has a more powerful AI core, we should find out more within a month or so, I note an AI core is only as good as the learning applied to it which Apple surely has not skimped on). Still, performance is not everything in a phone, but it's not like A11 appears to have compromises in other places like battery life. Like many, I would really like to see an A11 or later SoC (likely a different enhanced design that is optimised for this usage) running OS X on a laptop. Let's see what the additional TDP headroom can do in these form factors.