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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by frank2 on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:17PM (#23607532)
>Apple would pay Intel to fab their SOCs.

Why would Intel agree to that? Have they ever fabbed any other companies design?

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by gsnedders on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:41PM (#23609113)
Yes: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/overview.htm...

There were rumours going around about its demise a few years ago, but a fair bit of that was simply their failure to ship 10nm parts on schedule AFAIK. They're still doing some degree of third-party manufacturing, and I don't doubt once they reach a point of having the capacity for their first-party products on 10nm we might seem them expand.

However, the inevitable flip-side of this is unlike TSMC/SS where Apple can bid the highest for the early production of a new node, Intel are highly likely to keep the new node for themselves to start with.

Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by 00deadbeef on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:02PM (#23607953)
Apple said they’ve produced 2 billion A-series SoCs in ten years. Would Intel turn down a slice of that very large pie if offered?
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by kllrnohj on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:20PM (#23608108)
Intel currently doesn't have enough capacity to make their own chips and are rumored to be outsourcing to Global Foundries as a result ( https://wccftech.com/rumor-intel-moving-select-cpus-to-globa... - huge grain of salt on this one ofc, but the supply constraints on Intel's fabs are well known - they mentioned it even at their earnings call) - why would they stop making their own products to make Apple's instead? Apple'd have to pay an absurd amount for that to make sense.
Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by evan_ on Monday June 22, 2020 @08:20PM (#23608562)
Apple has an absurd amount of money.