There's some parallels with IBM dropping the ball on PowerPC, driving Apple to jump to Intel. The situation hasn't gotten quite as bad as it was with PowerPC, b

There's some parallels with IBM dropping the ball on PowerPC, driving Apple to jump to Intel. The situation hasn't gotten quite as bad as it was with PowerPC, but Apple has seen this all before and wants to make the leap before it gets that bad, or at the very least open up an escape hatch or two (given Apple's relationship with AMD for graphics, I would be shocked if they haven't also talked about Ryzen in high end Macs).