Writers on the internet do this to get page views for their site. Here's an example of another wrong prediction. These started in about 2012 and have continued each year.
According to a report from
Bloomberg, Apple is working on three new Macs which it will release
as soon as this year. These are apparently arriving in the form of two laptops and one desktop, each sporting Apple’s own new co-processors.
Well this was written in January 2018.
Obviously we never saw those in 2018. More fake news to get people to click on a story and up the page views.
Don't believe these "news releases" till Apple actually releases products with these chips in them.
Will Apple eventually do this ? Probably a few Macbooks and the Air will have ARM based A chips but that doesn't mean every Mac they make (desktops specifically) is going to be switched the A chips. They won't completely leave Intel behind in 2020 and make every chip built into all Macs, as Macrumors wants you to believe.
It would be a complete joke to release the next Mac Pro this year with a $10,000 pricetag and a 28 core Xeon CPU and then pull all Intel Support in macOS by about 2022 except for some x86 emulator software. If I were to buy a 2019/20 Mac Pro and they did this, that would immediately end my use of all Apple hardware products.
How many A series chips would it take to replace one 28 core Xeon ? Probably about 6 of them. Apple completely abandoning Intel support in their Mac desktop line would be suicidal. If they really want to kill off the Mac completely that's the way to do that. Switching from PPC chips to Intel was necessary 14 years ago because PPC chips were too hot and slower than Intel processors. ARM chips do use less power and produce less heat but you simply can't get the processing power or speed you need for the iMac Pro or Mac Pro to function up to the specs of what's already available from Intel.
If you were to ask any professional whether they care about being able to run iOS apps on their pro level Mac desktop they would laugh and tell you that is completely ludicrous. Apple made ARM chips might get put into iMacs and Mac Pros as a secondary processor but not as the main CPU. I think there will still be Intel x86 support long after 2020 arrives. It's obvious that Apple wants complete control of everything that goes in to making a Mac. They plan on eventually making their own graphics cards too. As the saying goes, "you don't build Rome in a day." It will be quite a few years until they can be completely free of Intel, Samsung and AMD. That is their goal, we'll see if they can pull it off.