ASICs always do better than general purpose chips. General purpose chips is turtles and turtles of virtualization and have to consider 4+ decades of backward compatible instructions set support.

ASICs are deployed when the application area is economically large enough to so there is return on the investment in developing one. Bitcoin mining few years ago or today inference or more mundane things like video decoding/encoding.

General purpose chips on the other hand have to be general purpose first to be useful, i.e. support as many application domains and instruction sets as possible . It can be long tail of support which both slow your chip down and also slow development down. Apple's took a long time to develop M series to be general purpose enough and still need even now software tooling like Rosetta to make say virtualization work for a good reason.

New tooling would always help and there is already lot of software emulation for developing chips today but you still need physical iterations to tap-out and have high enough yield, no LLM can help with that.