Apple Weekly 2016/34

> Intriguing Rumor: ‘Apple Could Use Custom x86 SoC Made by AMD’

  Most of the speculation about Apple taking control of its Mac CPU is about
  switching the instruction set to ARM. That’s possible, of course, but
  problematic in many ways. (You wouldn’t be able to use Boot Camp to boot into
  Windows, for example.) This is just an idle rumor from a year ago, but it’s
  intriguing to think about Apple designing their own SoCs for Mac with the help
  of AMD.

> That could explain why almost all Mac haven’t been updated for ages, intriguing indeed!

> Intel aims to challenge TSMC over Apple chip orders by 2018

  Intel’s recent pledge to expand its business making chips for others
  highlights its ambition to snatch chip orders for Apple’s popular iPhones from
  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. as early as 2018, industry experts said.

> So Intel would build CPU for iOS and AMD x86 CPUs for the Mac?

This would be a... most interesting turn of events.