I once believed that, but it really isn't true anymore. Intel made quite the effort to kill third party chipsets. We are not living in the early 90's. Intel

I once believed that, but it really isn't true anymore. Intel made quite the effort to kill third party chipsets. We are not living in the early 90's. Intel decided (quite differently than ARM) that it would have a set of configurations and take over almost every aspect of it chips. Look at the NUC, it is a stock Intel everything design. It would be rather easy to support from Apple's perspective.