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apple is moving on from intel because intel burned them badly with 10nm process chips. those were supposed to be out 5 years ago, when apple was readying the cu
by clairity 7y ago
apple is moving on from intel because intel burned them badly with 10nm process chips. those were supposed to be out 5 years ago, when apple was readying the current design generation of macbook pros. apple finally had to give up hope and release the machine with hotter and less performant chips than they thought they’d be launching with.
that was the point that apple realized intel had become incapable of leading the industry any longer and started looking beyond intel.
- kitsunesoba 7y agoThere's some parallels with IBM dropping the ball on PowerPC, driving Apple to jump to Intel. The situation hasn't gotten quite as bad as it was with PowerPC, but Apple has seen this all before and wants to make the leap before it gets that bad, or at the very least open up an escape hatch or two (given Apple's relationship with AMD for graphics, I would be shocked if they haven't also talked about Ryzen in high end Macs).