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Re:Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs by ganoushoreilly on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:50PM (#25473060)
They aren't going to have their lunch eaten. Apple doesn't have nearly the volume to make a meaningful impact, neither does Microsoft. Neither of them make up a substantial segment of cpu sales.

It does put healthy pressure on them, but I think AMD is fine for the near future, they're also working on ARM chips as well.

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Re:Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs by valuearb on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:33PM (#25473436)
Apple now probably makes close to a half billion ARM chips a year, between iPhones, iPads, Macs, AppleTV, HomePod, and embedded controllers.
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Re:Microsoft Designing Its Own Chips for Servers, Surface PCs by mr_toad on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:00PM (#25474302)
What if they start selling server chips? Slap an ‘Azure’ label on them and they’ll sell like hot-cakes.
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