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For me, the real question, and pipe dream, will Apple partner with AMD during the transition and perhaps make some some hybrid AMD x86/Apple ARM machines since they're both being built by TSMC?

There is an interesting thought. Apple could embed one AMD-chiplet with up to 8 cores into their designs, where Apple provides the ARM-CPUs as well as the io-hardware the chiplets require. This would retain the ability to run x86-code, while the system would use the ARM-hardware for most task.

[taylodl]

Bingo! This is exactly what I see happening!

[arvinsim]

Would that significantly increase cost?

[taylodl]

Actually it would give them something with which to differentiate their Pro lines: they would have the x86 processor along with the ARMs.