Do you think M1 is a threat to other chips?

We’ll have to wait for the reviews to see what double the GPU cores does to performance for productivity apps, but $Apple (AAPL.US)$ ’s already impressive start with the M1 Pro and M1 Max looks to be leaping ahead with the M1 Ultra. It has taken $Qualcomm (QCOM.US)$ and $Microsoft (MSFT.US)$ years to deliver laptop-like performance on ARM-based chips for Windows, and Apple is already delivering workstation-level performance here.
Where things will get really interesting with Apple’s chip design is the Mac Pro. Apple’s existing Mac Pro is powered by Intel Xeon CPUs and $Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.US)$ ’s Radeon PRO W6000X GPUs. Apple ended its event yesterday by teasing an Apple Silicon version of its Mac Pro machine “for another day.” Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman revealed last year that the Mac Pro will ship with up to 40 CPU cores and 128 GPU cores. If you’re keeping count, that’s double the M1 Ultra.