> or Apple’s silicon game is racing far ahead of what I considered possible

Gruber's strange assumption here is that a new number means some major improvements. Apple has never really been consistent about sticking to patterns in product releases.

This is a major improvement (over the M3).

It's on a new fab node size.

It also have more CPU cores than it's predessor (M3 with 8-core vs M4 with 10-cores).

It's on TSMC n3E which is a slightly less dense but better yielding than the previous n3B.

Especially about Gurman, who he loves to hate on.

As a longtime reader/listener I don’t see him as hating Gurman at all.

Never understood the animosity, especially because it seems to only go one direction.

He spills Apple's secrets. Gruber had him on his podcast once and called him a super villain in the Apple's universe, or something like this. It was cringeworthy

Wasn't it relatively well known that the M3 is on an expensive process and quickly getting to an M4 on a cheaper/higher yield process would be worth it?

Yes but Apple has never gone iPad first on a new chip either, so I was with him in that I assumed it wouldn’t be what they would do.

“Let’s make all our Macs look slower for a while!”

So I was surprised as well.

Nuvia/Qualcomm Elite X aspires to beat M3 and launches in 2 weeks.

Now Apple can keep their crown with this early M4 launch.