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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by ogre_codes on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:52AM (#23610044)
This is the big gotcha. A lot of people see the incremental cost of the CPU as the cost, but the actual cost is:

`(development cost + (units sold * incremental cost) ) / units sold`

But a lot of Macs have higher end Intel CPUs so the per/ unit cost of Intel CPUs is pretty damned high.

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