The rumour that Apple may use AMD processors is based on information from data-mining of macOS Catalina 10.15.4 in a Beta release that was available last wednesday. (Feb 5th). It was found that the new Beta had a number of AMD Processor Codenames as well as codenames for a few other unreleased AMD processor products, which were not present in previous releases. Thus the rumour related to the possible availability of AMD processors, which seems reasonable to me as a likely reason such AMD-related code-names are present in the codebase.
The link you provided which you seem to feel debunks the rumour is from April of 2018, And only counters a much weaker rumour from that time frame.