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I graduated from university with a degree in electrical engineering, and for the last five years, I worked at GE Aviation Systems. I worked in one of their subdivisions as an avionics and aircraft power systems engineer for three (3) years and as a hardware engineer for my last two years. I learned a lot in my time in the aviation industry. However, after five years, I needed a change. I’ve been exposed to web development and software engineering through friends (my co-host @kwuchu works at GitHub) and tech news outlet (hacker news, the verge, etc…), but never explored it beyond building a personal website....

When watching Apple’s Arm laptops event, I couldn’t help but wonder: where is all that performance coming from? During the event, there were two key points (that are not obvious, IMHO), that further explain where they are getting all that extra performance from. But first, let’s mention the obvious stuff, that plenty of analysts will anchor on, and that are valid: More transistors is better: 5nm process allows more transistors in a chip....