Interesting that Apple would announce the A14 on the iPad Air and not their flagship iPhone. Perhaps 5nm yields as such that the iPhone was delayed? In any case, the A14 is a very impressive piece of engineering. I would expect that Apple will also use the A14 in their future Macs. In any case, the iPad Air looks like a killer upgrade!
Expect to see an A14X announced -- likely for the coming iPad Pro. What about the Apple Silicon laptop? It's going to have a different name and be substantially different from either the A14 and A14X.
Apple has already said that they have a whole family of processors coming. However I still can see an A series (A14X most likely) going into a Mac Book type laptop. An X version would be plenty in such a laptop as it already supports everything a Mac Book needs. The Mac Book Airs and Pros need a better solution and that will likely be its own family type. Desktops would be a third line of Mac processors.
You don’t think the comparison of A12/14 to other devices was warming us up the that being the entry-level Mac processor? The A14X would be overkill and draw more power.
Apple isn't going to use an A series SOC in a Mac. There are completely different requirements in the various Mac product lines that call for optimized SOC's for each, and that is what Apple stated at WWDC.
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