Apple is reportedly thinking about ditching Intel and making its own chip for Mac laptops (AAPL, INTC)

Apple may be considering releasing a laptop in the future that uses its own chips instead of a chip from Intel, according to a report from Nikkei on Friday. 
Apple's iPhones use an Apple-designed chip based on the ARM instruction set, but its current lineup of Mac laptops and desktops use chips from Intel that run the x86 instruction set. It would be a significant engineering challenge to enable software designed for Intel chips to run on Apple's ARM-based processors. MacOS alone would be a