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Intel was also an important partner to Apple at one point.

• tchaffee 3y ago
  Intel is still around, still innovating, and still profitable. It has a lot more competition than in the past, but they are still a force to be reckoned with.
• meepmorp 3y ago
  Apple never had the ability to develop custom x86 chips in house and were constantly at the mercy of Intel's timelines and product development priorities, as well as their extended issues shrinking their lithography below 14nm. ARM presents none of those issues for Apple - now they handle the design of their CPUs, prioritize whatever they want, and fab however many they need directly from whoever using newer processes that Intel still hasn't matched yet.