"On the contrary, intel made significant changes to their CPUs court apple's business: the low power core cpu was started specifically to enable the MBA, as wel

"On the contrary, intel made significant changes to their CPUs court apple's business: the low power core cpu was started specifically to enable the MBA, as well as the focus on a powerful integrated graphics chip for laptop CPUs." Um, since the CPUs you are talking about came out years before MBA came out that sounds more like Steve talking... Also, intel GPUs are the most commonly used in the (x86) world and has been for a long time (before apple even made products using x86 processors). How the idea or execution of including it in the CPU has anything to do with apple I haven't got a clue. I'd be more willing "blame" the performance arms race of integrated GPU solutions on AMD buying ATi.