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> And that challenge is compounded by the fact that Apple was Intel’s largest customer for premium x86 chipsets, and now Apple has moved to Arm, and x86 chips a
by theandrewbailey 6y ago
> And that challenge is compounded by the fact that Apple was Intel’s largest customer for premium x86 chipsets, and now Apple has moved to Arm, and x86 chips are not Apple’s future.
I'm skeptical that Apple was Intel's largest customer (I've heard that Apple was only 10% or so of Intel's business). Even if they were the largest customer, Apple wasn't important enough to make Intel bend over backwards.
- 908B64B197 6y agoBut it's a flagship customer to say the least. Just look at the percentage of high value devs using the platform. And count the MacBook Pros in any given good CS program.
- kevincox 6y agoI don't doubt that having your processor in developer workstations is helpful for driving use of your server processors.