Now, you have a decent chunk of cash to build a new gaming PC and you are waiting for AMD and Nvidia to announce their next generation GPUs. Because whatever you spec out is definitely on AMD or Intel's foundation. It's done. It's over, because Apple has dumped Intel and switched to ARM.

Maybe not, but Jean-Louis Gasset, a former Apple executive who led the development of Mac computers in the late 1980s, basically argues that Apple's decision to phase out Intel CPUs in favor of its own ARM-based silicon will "make PC OEMs reconsider their allegiance to x86 silicon.

Apple is embarking on a two-year transition plan to run all Macs on ARM-based silicon instead of the Intel x86 CPUs it has used for the past decade and a half. means you should stop buying Macs. Others question whether the Mac Pro will remain a high-powered machine with ARM. [But not Gasset. What he describes in his blog post is the domino effect that is currently rocking the PC industry. Apple will get the ball rolling by switching completely to ARM, and Microsoft will focus on making Windows run well on ARM. They won't do that.

"Microsoft will influence the rest of the Windows PC industry as well ...... will move forward. Specifically, what are Dell, HP, Asus, and others going to do if Apple offers better laptops and desktops and Microsoft continues to improve Windows with ARM Surface devices? To compete, PC makers will have to follow suit.

He at least acknowledges that this will not happen overnight. He is also acutely aware that Apple's share of the PC market is currently less than 7%. But make no mistake, Intel is in "serious trouble" and ultimately has only one option left: to "join them" by signing another ARM license and producing competitive ARM chips to regain the attention of PC makers like Dell, HP, and Asus.

If you doubt Gasset's prediction, his MacBook Pro "gets hot... . get really hot," consider the anecdote. But that's cherry on top of the iPad Pro's "significantly lower TDP" and excellent Geekbench test results.

In other words, Intel, and by extension AMD, will be in big, big trouble if they don't get out of this x86 boom.