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They don’t want to be dragged along by Intel failing to meet deadlines.
by nojito 6y ago
They don’t want to be dragged along by Intel failing to meet deadlines.
- benologist 6y agoOr they just want to fold the hundreds of dollars per machine going to Intel into their own profit margins.
- nojito 6y agoIntel forced Apple to support 32bit computing for almost 10 years because they couldn’t meet deadlines. Apple has been dreaming about this day for years.
- benologist 6y agoIt's hard to imagine this is really Intel's fault and not just Tim Cook looking at a multi-billion dollar per year expense as an opportunity - they buy like 20 million processors a year it's a ton of money even by Apple's standards. Even Intel's lacklustre results in recent years seem like an unlikely catalyst - Apple couldn't have foreseen 14nm++++++++++++ back in 2015. In 2008 though, Apple acquired PA Semi to design chips. This project has probably been percolating since shortly after that.