Apple to move away from Intel processors as it shifts to its own ARM architecture
Monday, June 22, 2020 at 3:42PM 
At today's streamed Apple World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) Apple announced that it has been looking to move its Mac latops and desktops away from Intel processors and towards its own Apple Silicon. Demos at the pre-recorded event were created on Mac minis running Apple's A12 processors, identical to the ones running on the latest iPad Pros. Apple's last major architecture move was when it moved from PowerPC chips to Intel in 2005, Apple's A processors that have powered iPhones and iPads for the apst decade have shown staggering performance and great battery life. Moving the entire Apple hardware line to a unified ARM-powered architecture opens up a lot of opportunity for users and for developers.
Apple expects the transition to Apple Silicon to take around two years with the first Apple-powered Mac hardware shipping by the end of 2020 as per Tim Cook's on stage announcement. As for the majority of Mac users running on Intel, Apple says it will continue support for the foreseeable future. The advantage of Apple running its software on its own silicon include improved performance and continous upgrade paths without the usual stalling that's happened with companies depending on Intel to iterate.