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Those companies could conceivably do a lot of things, but that's a lot different to having in-house CPU and GPU design teams already staffed and firing on all c
by frou_dh 9y ago
Those companies could conceivably do a lot of things, but that's a lot different to having in-house CPU and GPU design teams already staffed and firing on all cylinders for years.
Not sure I get you re Apple being an opponent to Intel for "cheap" parts. It goes without saying that Apple would not sell their own stuff to anyone else. And for their own use, I'm sure the hardware would be very cheap to manufacture.
- nolok 9y agoDoesn't change what I said though. Unless you expect Apple to take over the laptop market (if they didn't reach above 10% during the last pro-apple decade, they're not going to do so now especially given their current issues in the field), or start selling their custom chips to third parties (they've never ever done so, unless I'm mistaken) AND those chips taking over the market, they're not the threat Intel has to worry about. Intel has to worry about Nvidia taking over the graphics and machine learning, AMD punching above its weight in workstation with EPYC and ThreadRipper, and ARM being cheap and good enough in all the low power fields and growing. A middle of the line, ARM based performance oriented chip for laptop is no threat to i5/i7, except indeed the risk to lose their place in macs.
- frou_dh 9y agoI just don't see how other laptop manufacturers are doing as being particularly relevant to Apple's decision making. If they ditched Intel, that would very publically rip a stripe off of Intel, regardless of absolute market share. Not something Intel wants, and is what I contended Intel have gone to an unusual length, integrating AMD graphics, to avoid.