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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by outworlder on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:16PM (#23605894)
> AMD is tiny compared to intel, the fact that they are besting them goes to show how they have been stuck for ~5 years.

I'm having trouble following the reasoning.

> AMD which didn't have the funds to run a dedicated design team for laptop/desktops.

They have plenty of funds for R&D. Problem is, processor manufacture goes much beyond the processors themselves. You have to design the entire manufacturing chain, and spend billions on new foundries which will get obsolete in a few years.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by AlphaSite on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:50PM (#23606453)
AMD is fabless, they just didn't have any money for spinning up several different chips for different markets. They even had a single chip from desktop to high end servers (with all the tradeoffs that entails).
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