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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by greedo on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:05PM (#23815826)
The A13 Bionic already has six cores, so expanding that to eight seems trivial in cost. The last time I read the BOM for iPhones, the ARM portion of the SoC was around $50. What are Intel laptop CPUs selling for?
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Re:Apple Silicon: The Passing of Wintel by baskire on Sunday July 12, 2020 @08:32PM (#23815931)
That BOM doesn’t include r&d either. Something which the intel chips baked in.

Arguably the r&d costs would still exist for just their iPhone line. And I’m sure the cost to add a Mac line isn’t as much as the intel premium

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