Is there any manufacturer with plans to come out with an Apple Silicon-level ARM chip (in terms of performance and efficiency)? Ever since the first benchmarks for the M1 chips started appearing I've been kinda dreaming of a Raspberry-Pi style system with a high performance ARM chip.
In terms of power efficiency you'll need to wait until Apple stops monopolizing TSMC's N5 node.
Apple almost singlehandedly invented the ARM64 ISA, and bankrolled the leading-edge TSMC process, so it's probably okay for them to have the best SoC for a while as long as others have a fair chance of catching up soon.
I'd want better mainline support for it. Either full mainline kernel support or something akin to it from Nvidia. My Jetsons were stuck on Ubuntu 18.04 since early 2020, with the old 4.19 kernel. They only recently beta'd a 20.04-based build with Kernel 5.10. Full release is 2022Q4. Somewhat like their "18.04" upgrade - very, very late. Sure, I could backport, try to upgrade on my own, etc. Some people have done so. Results were varied.
IMO, Nvidia is comparing themselves to embedded vendors. For general compute, I'd like vendors to keep up with the Fedoras, sids, and Tumbleweeds of the world, at the very least. Not asking for arch, btw :)
Hopefully Nvidia's server ambitions with Grace will see them take on general compute.
