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"Apple and Intel are in the middle of a slow-motion breakup." I'd say it's pretty decisive at this point.

• sneak 6y ago
  Apple will continue to buy Intel chips in quantity for at least 18 months into the future.
  • jacknews 6y ago
    Of course, but I'd say this is less a 'slow motion breakup', which has obviously already been going on for the last few years, as Intel has been cruising along oblivious, while Apple has been furiously building it's own capabilities and an escape, and more a case of 'divorce papers have now been filed, but these things take time to conclude'
  • eyelidlessness 6y ago
    Probably longer to meet support contract obligations. But the idea that they might prolong the transition more than the market will bear, and their operations can turn out ARM product, is silly. They invested years of R&D into this transition, they’ve made huge hardware architectural changes smoothly twice with tons of preparation, and if anything they let the decision linger longer than anyone watching for it would’ve expected given the A-series improvements and given Intel’s many disappointments over the last few years. When they switched from PPC to Intel, they had clearly been desperately trying to keep PPC alive and viable. With Intel they’ve been just openly showing the world they can do better and just daring anyone try to keep up.
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