[nspattak]

From what I hear apple's latest chips are already so far ahead of amd64 in performance and power consumption that they can easily wait a couple of years. I do not think that this is what they actually want to do, i am only saying that they can even afford that for a few years if they have to.

I am not sure that there is enough demand from smaller clients to 100% cover apple's usual capacity.

in short this seems to be a real bras de faire :)

[colinmhayes]

Apple's chips are better largely because they're the only one on TSMC 5. If apple went to say samsung they'd end up on a worse 5nm process while AMD takes up the 3nm capacity Apple just ditched.

[sfifs]

The vast majority of Apple chips are phones, not Macs. Samsung is neck & neck and their top end phones are definitely competitive, performing better in many ways for many people.