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Because they don't have the money. Apple's net income has been at least $20bn every quarter for the past two years[1]. Both Intel and AMD make a small fraction

by runeks 4y ago

Because they don't have the money. Apple's net income has been at least $20bn every quarter for the past two years[1]. Both Intel and AMD make a small fraction of that[2][3]. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/net-inc... [2] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/INTC/intel/net-inc... [3] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMD/amd/net-income

rekoil 4y ago
Not so much that they don't have the money (they don't, I agree), but the bigger issue is even if they could their margins aren't nearly as good as Apples are.
- DSingularity 4y ago
  Their potential margins. So they would be taking large risk to potentially make much less.