>Apple is doing laps over Intel because -- it seems -- of their choice to use ARM.
AMD processors are essentially equivalent to M1 in performance while still keeping x86, so probably yes (there are an ARM advantage in instruction decoding, but judging by performance differences, it's probably small).
Apple's advantage is mostly that Apple (via TSMC) can use a smaller processor node than Intel and optimize the entire Mac software stack for their processors.
AMD processors are essentially equivalent to M1 in performance while still keeping x86, so probably yes (there are an ARM advantage in instruction decoding, but judging by performance differences, it's probably small).
Apple's advantage is mostly that Apple (via TSMC) can use a smaller processor node than Intel and optimize the entire Mac software stack for their processors.