This week at WWDC, in a move similar to the one it did in 2006, Apple has announced it will transition its Mac computer lineup to its Arm-based in-house processors. The development box is based on same chip used by an iPad Pro. The first commercial models should be available later this year and the transition is expected to be fully completed in two years.
It’s still unclear how virtualization and emulation will perform on these new machines, but it seems that the Rosetta 2 emulation/virtualization layer won’t support all x64 instructions, so it’s possible we can’t run alternative operating systems in virtual machines or that they’ll have slow performance.