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They seem to have managed the very difficult neat trick of taking Cyclone and shortening its pipeline and latencies whilst also increasing the usually conflicting aspects of clockspeed and cache sizes. I have not looked at old SpecCPU2000 scores but this must be at or better Alpha EV7 performance levels now. FinFETs helped get Core into fanless tablets but it has also helped A9 turn into a Excavator desktop level performing cpu in a mobile phone form factor. It's pretty neat for Intel that Apple is a self-contained proprietary ecosystem that Windows is relatively shielded from because A9 in a desktop format could be quite a threat and especially in laptops.