John Brownlee:
Apple’s not serious about ditching Intel for the Mac, but even so, the next few years will be very interesting as ARM and Intel trade body blows. If Intel plays its cards right, come 2015, we could all be talking very seriously indeed about whether or not Apple will be putting Intel’s new mobile chips in the iPhone 8 and iPad 6.
Interesting rundown of the chips and what we may see.
I’ve got a serious vision problem with Apple walking away from ARM architecture, I just don’t see it happening. Apple has thousands of people working on the A-series chips. Are they just going to fire all of them? I’m sure a lot of other companies would hope so. More importantly, the great appeal of ARM is that you license the architecture and then design the actual chips however you want. Apple is famously a DIY company, and for it ARM is PowerPC without IBM or Motorola.
So while, yes I agree that you’ll probably never see an Ax in a Mac, I’m even more confident you won’t see an Intel anything in an iOS device.AS WELL as whatever comes AFTER Macintosh.