And where is LNL now? How's the company that produced it? Even under Pat Gelsinger they said that LNL is a one off and they're not gonna make any more of them. It's commercially infeasible.
Why does it matter that LNL is bad economically? LNL shows that it's definitely possible to achieve same idle or even better idle wattage than Apple Silicon.

  How is you bringing up synthetics relevant to race to idle?
I truly don't understand what you mean.