16- and 32-core Apple chips soon? 9to5mac.com/2020/12/07/apple-silicon-mac-power-macbook-pro

sure, why not. pretty sure that M1X has already been discussed

I'm not sure it would beat Ryzen in RandomX. They don't have SMT - only 1 thread/core

but they can beat it by efficiency probably

hmmm semiaccurate.com/2020/12/07/apple-g…s-creative-with-their-upcoming-cpus

"significantly outperform Intel’s current high end Skylake parts and do so at a small fraction of the power."

smells like they'll ASIC common computing tasks like video encoding/AI

yeah, makes sense considering they had done all that development on it before