>They'll just be premade Cortex X1 or whatever licensed ARM core, but Apple will remain ahead with Firestorm/Icestorm and whatever comes after. Kind of like Qua

>They'll just be premade Cortex X1 or whatever licensed ARM core, but Apple will remain ahead with Firestorm/Icestorm and whatever comes after. Kind of like Qualcomm right now. The chips don't have to be better than Apple, they just have to be better than Intel (and AMD). The benchmarks of the Snapdragon 888, which utilizes the Cortex-X1 core design, look decent. I mean, they're not as good as the A14 and M1 with the Firestorm/Icestorm cores, but they're decent. Decent enough that Microsoft could likely build upon the X1 core and tweak those designs to have competitive performance to Intel.