There’s a lot in this article that doesn’t merit too much discussion, but here’s a couple of interesting points.<p>Here’s the closest the actual article comes to making a thesis statement that matches the headline:<p>> But there is next to no chance Apple will replace Intel chips for ARM-based ones any time in the next five years.<p>“Never” vs. “in the next five years” is a pretty big difference, but the actual claim in the article was correct. The first M1 Macs came out in 2020, more than five years after 2012. The headline was wrong, but headlines are often not written by the writer of the original article. That seems weird and bad to me but that’s not the author’s fault here.<p>> Intel is the Apple of the microchip world: everyone is at least a year behind Intel when it comes to competing with their cutting-edge technology and design in the x86 space. Because of Intel’s manufacturing strengths, they can make the entirety of their chips smaller (and therefore more power-efficient) than anyone else around, not just their CPU cores.<p>It turned out that TSMC caught up to and surpassed Intel. It’s tempting to prophesy that Intel will never catch up to TSMC based on the performance of the past few years, but things can change over time.