"Apple Silicon" is a sobriquet for the ARM processor, memory, storage, and other devices built on the same silicon "blanket" and used in current generation Macs, iPads, iPhones, watches and other Apple devices. This particular article however addresses issues unique to M1, M1 Max, M1 Pro, and M2 Apple Computers (
ie. devices that have Apple Silicon inside and run macOS 10, 11, & 12) and conflates all them under the single more inclusive "Apple Silicon".
To be completely accurate, the M1 version of Apple Silicon is also used in the iPad Pro, which raises the question is the iPad Pro a computer or pad? The only difference being one runs macOS and the other iPadOS and if I heard correctly iPadOS 16, which will be released this fall, will be inheriting features from macOS that will make it more macOS-like.
