If you’ve been following Apple since the early iPad days, you’ve probably noticed that an increasing percentage of the company’s devices run on Apple-developed chips. Mac computers seemed destined to eventually move from Intel to Apple processors, except Intel’s chips maintained a healthy performance lead over Apple’s.
That changed last week when Apple debuted the A12X, enabling iPad Pros to finally match the speeds of Intel-based MacBook Pros. Now the Mac’s transition to Apple processors feels imminent — the only questions are “how?” and “when?”
Having spent years writing about Apple, I think there are three plausible scenarios for the Mac’s switch to Apple-developed CPUs, a process that will likely take place over the next two years. I’ll refer to the scenarios as “hybrid,” “A-series,” and “Z-series.” But before that, it’s worth considering some pertinent background information.
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