To be fair, Apple is the only player in the game capable of taking a shot. A trillion dollars buys a lot of experimental 5nm masks, and their walled garden ena

To be fair, Apple is the only player in the game capable of taking a shot. A trillion dollars buys a lot of experimental 5nm masks, and their walled garden enables them to completely rewrite their entire OS and toolchain... something they've already done twice in the last 20 years for desktop, and a few times for mobile. Will 3rd parties like adobe or digidesign get on board? Hopefully they already are (in secret)... it would be a massive problem for power user 3rd parties to point out why they can't do something they need to do after the fact. In the end it's all an equation of core counts, watts per core, and race conditions. Can 1000 RISC cores provide the same responsiveness and stability that 28 x86_64 cores provide? We'll see.