> Intel didn't have big fabs 20 years ago, They had leading edge ARM chips though. If Apple used XScale (i.e. the default choice had Intel not decided to get r

> Intel didn't have big fabs 20 years ago, They had leading edge ARM chips though. If Apple used XScale (i.e. the default choice had Intel not decided to get rid of it due to "reasons") for the iPhone that would have significantly reduced the likelihood of them developing competitive chips themselves. Also 20 years? Samsung was still making Apple's chips back in 2014. > 2. There's no money in designing licensed CPU cores as a middleman for a company that drives margins so low they're associated with suicide nets and forced labor. Is Apple significantly or at all worse than their competitors in this regard? In any case only reason Apple is designing their own chips is because there weren't any decent options for their use cases available on the market (and Intel only has itself to blame for that...)