Re:Ask HN: Is Intel doomed? They’re still unable to compete ...
by toast0 on Friday May 20, 2022 @10:29AM
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One crisis at a time. They're currently coming back from their 10nm process failure.
Anyway, M1 is only competitive in the market for processors for Apple computers. Unless Apple makes a enormous change to their business practices, I don't see them selling their CPUs to others. Apple doesn't have a good history of corporate support that would get enterprise buyers to buy their servers, if they had servers to sell, etc. Look how hard of a time AMD has selling server CPUs, at times where they've got a clearly superior CPU (first few years of opterons, currently with Epycs); it takes more than just a superior CPU to sell server CPUs.
Anyway, M1 is only competitive in the market for processors for Apple computers. Unless Apple makes a enormous change to their business practices, I don't see them selling their CPUs to others. Apple doesn't have a good history of corporate support that would get enterprise buyers to buy their servers, if they had servers to sell, etc. Look how hard of a time AMD has selling server CPUs, at times where they've got a clearly superior CPU (first few years of opterons, currently with Epycs); it takes more than just a superior CPU to sell server CPUs.