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Just sheer force of will. Intel has the engineering talent, the experience, the motivation and the capital. If they can't do it, who can? Apple has a lot to pro
by Osmium 14y ago
Just sheer force of will. Intel has the engineering talent, the experience, the motivation and the capital. If they can't do it, who can? Apple has a lot to prove here, and so far all they've achieved is purchasing a few smaller chip design firms and managing to adapt existing ARM cores for their own SoCs. They have a long way to go to be able to be competitive in this area. The one thing going for them is that they have the capital to burn, and I can't think of a better way to use it.
- chucknelson 14y agoNote that as of the A6/X, they have now designed their own ARM instruction set cores (as opposed to using ARM-designed cores).
- Osmium 14y agoAh, I wasn't aware of this, thanks. I thought they were still packaging ARM-designed cores. For anyone else who'd missed it, here's a good article on it on Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/5 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/5