Macs running on ARM-based processors could arrive in 2021.

Apple is expected to ship its first ARM-based Mac as soon as the end of the year with a major design revamp coming to the MacBook in 2021.

Mac fans, the wait could soon be over.

Amazon has announced the new Graviton2 SoC that will power its next generation Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances. The new instances are touted to be 40% more powerful than the current ones.

The reference design will help speed up deployment.

The British company's legal team said its chip technology is of U.K origin and would not breach U.S trade restrictions.

Apple has hired ARM's lead CPU architect.

Intel, Qualcomm and Samsung have invested in chip design company SiFive and its open-source RISC-V instruction set.

Huawei cannot develop and manufacture its own processors in future as it pays to license ARM's chip architecture designs.

The end of the Intel-based Mac era.