They are, at least with the mainstream Macbook Air-type/older Mac Pro type chips, not the latest and most expensive Core i7's, obviously. But they don't need to

They are, at least with the mainstream Macbook Air-type/older Mac Pro type chips, not the latest and most expensive Core i7's, obviously. But they don't need to reach that high, either. Even taking over the Celeron/Pentium market from Intel would probably make Qualcomm bigger than AMD is in the PC chip market. https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/221881-apples-a9x-goes-head-to-head-against-intels-core-m-in-arm-x86-grudge-match https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/221881-apples-a9x-goes-he... http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12939310/iphone-7-a10-fusion-processor-apple-intel-future http://www.theverge.com/2016/9/16/12939310/iphone-7-a10-fusi...