Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Yatheendra]

Hardware: if IO speeds matter, ASUS has Tinkerboards with 
dual-channel RAM - I think those are rare in ARM land.

Form factor: realizing the market for SBC's, there are amd64 
SBC's now like the lattepanda (soldered RAM, like most SBC's).

dmd: does its backend play a big role in compilation speed? Would 
maintaining a fork of a backend from somewhere else (SBCL?) 
provide wider platform support without harming dmd performance? 
RISC-V is behind ARM on the horizon.

ARM may be urgent, if say, the Pinebook, takes off among 
developers.