Apple benefits from compatibility with the ARM ecosystem, but there’s no downsides (from their perspective) from extending it. Their chips are “Apple Silicon”,

Apple benefits from compatibility with the ARM ecosystem, but there’s no downsides (from their perspective) from extending it. Their chips are “Apple Silicon”, setting the stage for forging ahead alone. I think it’s a card they hold in reserve, to be played when the time is right, like the Intel transition.