> Qualcomm doesn't, Snapdragon X Elite is supposed to be very competitive (and possibly or par with Apple's chips) of course we'll see. > The phone market is

> Qualcomm doesn't, Snapdragon X Elite is supposed to be very competitive (and possibly or par with Apple's chips) of course we'll see. > The phone market is so big Perhaps, but I don't see how this changed anything. Most chips are low cost, low margin and ARM is barely getting anything from then anyway. IIRC ARM is the only company that has competitive mobile cores besides Apple and they can't come even remotely close to Intel's R&D budget.