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> Their newer MacBooks are going to be ARM based, which, I think, is mostly so that they have more people to develop apps for their phones and iPads.

I think it's oversimplifying the situation to say "Apple wants ARM just for mobile", though. While that's certainly a benefit of having a single architecture to support in their product ecosystem, there have been plenty of threads on HN about how Intel's rate of chip improvements have been stagnating. The much-touted scaleup of their 10-nm chips ended up being delayed by 2 years, and their 7-nm chips aren't arriving until 2023, by their own (likely optimistic) estimate[1]. The more likely narrative is that relying on Intel became untenable both cost- and performance-wise.

1: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2020/7/23/21336356/i...