It would be hard to use such a chip since it's so customized for Apple hardware, and it's likely only available in BGA(?) or similarly consumer-unfriendly manuf

It would be hard to use such a chip since it's so customized for Apple hardware, and it's likely only available in BGA(?) or similarly consumer-unfriendly manufacturing oriented packaging. I would really love to see an ARM64 ecosystem similar to what exists for PC hardware with motherboards and chips and other parts available. The chip for that would probably be the Graviton or something similar, and apparently that chip is being sold to other vendors including high-end router vendors like Mikrotik. Unfortunately I do think the M1 beats the crap out of the graviton in at least single core performance, but I think that's because the M1 is optimized for fewer beefier cores for desktop work loads where single threaded performance matters more. Graviton is mostly for cloud and other applications where most work loads are highly multithreaded or multi-tenant.