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

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 21:24:04 UTC, kinke wrote:
>
> They'll probably have to put a lot of work into single-thread 
> performance though if they want to seriously compete with x86 
> in the laptop/desktop segment and according TDP budget + use 
> cases. I'm pretty sure a high number of relatively slow cores 
> won't cut it against the likes of Zen 2 and its successors.

For the D users targetting macOS:
A future plan for package "intel-intrinsics" is to translate the 
intrinsics to Neon so that stuff is at least a bit optimized on 
ARM also.