It's not even a recent thing. Way back when Apple used both TSMC and Samsung fou...

		joecool1029 on May 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashca... It's not even a recent thing. Way back when Apple used both TSMC and Samsung foundries for their A9 SoC's, the Samsung ones were measured to perform worse than the TSMC ones. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/10/samsung-vs-tsmc-comp... It's just the gap has become more noticeable in recent years. (Notably with things like the Snapdragon 888 handwarmer).

To put it in perspective, the latest Tensor G2 is outperformed by the 2019 A13 Bionic in geekbench.