To take down the MacBook Air, Microsoft needs to own the supply chain and microprocessors the way Apple does. Apple can create mighty expensive CPUs with larger

To take down the MacBook Air, Microsoft needs to own the supply chain and microprocessors the way Apple does. Apple can create mighty expensive CPUs with larger caches and bigger memory bandwidth because they have the margins. Intel and AMD (Qualcomm etc.) would have problems selling such expensive CPUs to e.g. Asus/Dell/Lenovo/...