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Did they ever lose them?
Depends on what you are measuring/bragging about.
Efficiency is the one that's still a win for Apple. But raw power has been surpassed by Intel and AMD. Also Apple's GPU was already surpassed last year with Snapdragon 8 gen 2, and even more with the gen 3.
Plus the upcoming Qualcomm's chip may be comparable in power efficiency, they claimed 30% less power use at the same performance as the M2 Max. So M3 would need to be much better in that sense to still have bragging rights next year.
Basically, significantly different story from when the M1 released where the gap was bigger. The others are catching up fast.
This was a bit misleading by Qualcomm. What they didn't show was the power draw at peak multi-core compared to Apple Silicon. Why? It appears that the Snapdragon X Elite uses twice the amount of power as the M2 Max in for example Cinebench 2024 at approximately the same performance, making the power draw comparable to the M2 Ultra.
And thats relying on things being 'just benchmarks'.
In real world usage on apple devices you've got typically far more performant libraries for the average dev, you've got far superior ML, especially on M series chips you've got things like the AMX which make a lot of operations desirable for ML literally twice as performant as the competition in many tasks. Fat memory bandwidth helps too of course.
Theres a lot up apple's sleeves from being so vertically integrated, and I think as per usual it will continue to reflect in the real world experience of users and developers.