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Or they just want to fold the hundreds of dollars per machine going to Intel into their own profit margins.
by benologist 6y ago
Or 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.