Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel

Re:Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel by theandrewbailey on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:44PM (#26094507)

> And that challenge is compounded by the fact that Apple was Intel’s largest customer for premium x86 chipsets, and now Apple has moved to Arm, and x86 chips are not Apple’s future.

I'm skeptical that Apple was Intel's largest customer (I've heard that Apple was only 10% or so of Intel's business). Even if they were the largest customer, Apple wasn't important enough to make Intel bend over backwards.

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Re:Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel by 908B64B197 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:17PM (#26094942)

But it's a flagship customer to say the least.

Just look at the percentage of high value devs using the platform. And count the MacBook Pros in any given good CS program.

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Re:Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel by kevincox on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:01PM (#26095388)

I don't doubt that having your processor in developer workstations is helpful for driving use of your server processors.

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