Speak with Mac performance! Apple's move away from Intel proved to be a successful step by the market

In June 2020, Apple Apple announced that its Mac notebooks and desktop PCs will switch to Apple's own ARM-architecture processors. That means Apple's Macs will ditch Intel processors and use chips in the same category as products like the iPhone and iPad.

It turns out that the choice to abandon Intel was the right one.

This choice allowed Apple to completely rethink the Mac, which had begun to become obsolete by aging designs and annual iterations of upgrades. After the "divorce" with Intel, Apple launched more eye-catching computer devices, coupled with the ongoing epidemic forced people to work and study from home, making Apple's Mac business grow rapidly.

Previously, when Apple made this decision, the market and consumers were still questioning its strength in laptops and desktop computers. While Apple uses internal chips on the iPhone and iPad, it has been selling Intel-powered computers for 15 years.

However, in the face of doubts, Apple used products to directly "justify" itself.

The first M1 Apple chip was launched in a MacBook Air laptop in 2020. It's more powerful than Intel's chips, while offering longer battery life and implementing a fanless design, which helps keep Apple's new MacBook Air quieter.

In April 2021, CEO Tim Cook said on the company's fiscal second-quarter earnings call that the M1 chip helped drive Apple's Mac revenue growth by 70.1%, reaching $9.1 billion in fiscal second-quarter revenue.

Looking at Apple's fiscal fourth quarter performance, Mac computer revenue in the quarter was $9.18 billion, which was lower than the expected $9.31 billion, but the highest in the company's history, up 1.6% year-on-year. While growth has slowed, it is largely because Apple, like all manufacturers, has experienced a slowdown following the outbreak of sales that the pandemic began to drive, and supply chain issues are also the main reason. Notably, sales in the fiscal fourth quarter did not include revenue from its most exciting new computer of the year.

In October, Apple launched the 14-inch MacBook Pro, which also proved that Apple's processor is capable of meeting the needs of the most demanding Apple customers. Powered by Apple's latest M1 Pro and M1 Max processors, the new laptop is better able to handle intensive tasks, not only with the best screen, but also brighter, sharper, and smoother than previous Intel models. On top of that, thanks to the energy-efficient design of Apple processors, laptops still offer a long battery life.

The market generally expects that apple macs that abandon Intel will develop better. According to CNBC, we will see another new MacBook Air in 2022, the most powerful iMac Pro and an updated version of the Mac Pro, while at the same time or will see the M1 in a brand new product category.

Not only is the M1 excellent in terms of the aforementioned multitasking and endurance, but it may even be used in Apple's augmented reality headset. According to an November report by Guo Mingchi, the "strongest Apple analyst on the ground," Apple's upcoming AR glasses by the end of 2022 will be as powerful as Apple's Mac.

Once upon a time, intel experienced the thrill of "lying down" to make money after it crushed AMD with a Core processor in 2006, but just when Intel was dominant and stagnant, the semiconductor industry was surging undercurrents.

Apple is on the road to self-developed processors, and Intel, the old giant, is now facing a number of competitors, including Apple, such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and AMD.

As of today's close, Apple closed up 0.05 percent, up nearly 39 percent so far this year.