Xiaomi: New CPU is mostly about to Eminem

This is nothing. China is about to start doing their own 5nm. When they roll out their own silicon at scale, I don't think completely solving this sort of problem is even possible.

What is the competition on that platform? He makes a lot of things you learn about them are transferable by doing something like this. Great detective work. With regards to Microsoft being ... uhm ... "transparent": I don't think there's catching up, nobody can match their manufacturing capabilities. Not even close. This means that you need to predict relative performance. (as long as you take similar assumptions in die size, advanced packaging and power envelope). What is the competition on that platform? He makes a lot of valuable stuff. However I also think 17 year old would, letting an LLM explain it to you is a terrible idea.