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Re:Intel let the chips fall where they might by throwaway4good on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:51AM (#32305244)
The iPhone business sponsored Apple's chip development; and that business is bigger than the PC market.
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Re:Intel let the chips fall where they might by chmod775 on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:38AM (#32305776)
If with "PC market" you're limiting that statement to pre-built personal computers, that's a misleading claim.

If you meant to refer to the entire computer hardware market, you're wrong by an order of magnitude.

iPhone Revenue 2021: $191.9 billion

Computer Hardware Revenue 2021: $1,129.39 billion

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Re:Intel let the chips fall where they might by r00fus on Monday August 01, 2022 @12:04PM (#32308059)
Comparing a market for devices to all of computer hardware (including peripherals/components) is what's ridiculous. The more apt analogy is computers (PCs) to iPhones.
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Re:Intel let the chips fall where they might by chmod775 on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:03PM (#32314076)
Throwaway4good was using the comparison of iPhones to PCs to allude that Apple has more money available to develop silicon, yet the pre-built PC market is a tiny subset of where money is made using semiconductors.

That's why it's a misleading claim.

I didn't expect I would have to elaborate this beyond what I said. My bad.

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