Apple could ditch Intel and move to ARM by 2020… killing MacOS gaming

Apple is reportedly considering making the switch to ARM-based chips in its Mac computers as early as next year, new reports suggest. The computer giant had been expected to make the switch across its entire product stack at some point or another, but no date has been set in stone. However, Intel officials and developers are now expecting a switch beginning in 2020. Apple’s Mac computers are fundamentally the same as our gaming PCs, from their memory, storage, and GPUs all the way down to the x86 processors within. However, that is all set to change once the company ditches Intel’s instruction set and chip designs in favour of the ones found in the Apple designed, ARM SoCs within its mobile devices, the iPhone and iPad. The swap will not only allow Apple to become a little more isolationist by making its own chips, relying only on a third-party foundry to do so, the end goal will be to merge all of its app stores into one uniform store with apps available across all three platforms.