No, that’s cope. There isn’t any secret sauce. It’s just well designed on every level.

You won’t match its power/performance by doing one thing and suddenly making it there. Intel’s process is quite close to TSMC’s already.

It's quite close to the process AMD are on but not 5nm that apple use.

A lot of M1's advantage is in terms of density. That's why they were theoretically able to make such an absolutely enormous processor and keep it cool.

Making that theory work in practice came from decades of low power semi experience. They're extremely good chip designers.

The Alder Lake node is about equivalent to TSMC's N7, maybe 10% better. N5, the node Apple is using for M1, is about 1.8x the density of N7 with 40% lower power usage.

AMD and Intel are on similar nodes at the moment, but Apple has a very notable advantage. It's not "secret sauce" so much as paying many billions for exclusive access.