After Anti-M1 Ads, Intel Wants to Make Future Apple Silicon Chips

[Jonchristian]

Breaking: Apple rehires “I’m a PC” as Mac convert to parody Intel Ad Campaign.

 

[Rigby]

Apple doesn't need intel.

Without Intel your M1 Mac wouldn't have Thunderbolt ports.

If Intel can pull it off, Apple will be glad to become a customer of their foundry services just to reduce their dependency on TSMC.

Intel needs Apple.

Apple is actually a rather small customer for Intel now on both the client and server side.

 

[qoop]

The M1 is lovely, but the Threadripper 3990X is lovelier. In fact, it's over 10 times as fast in Cinema 4D.

 

[wilhoitm]

What I think of is Apple’s relationship with Samsung when I hear of this. I think someone else has already said this. But, just think about it: being a chip fab is almost directly analogous to being a display manufacturer: you’re simply providing the manufacturing capability to produce another company’s vision. It is completely different than Apple using Intel’s designs: they’d just be using them like how they use Samsung today. Samsung builds the display panels on the iPhone, but would you say that the iPhone is a Samsung product?

You are missing the point! Intel can't produce the needed chips even if they tried! Samsung has proven they can produce but Intel has lost its way!

 

[russell_314]

The M1 is lovely, but the Threadripper 3990X is lovelier. In fact, it's over 10 times as fast in Cinema 4D.

Wait you mean a 280w desktop processor is faster than a 10w mobile processor. I guess I’m gonna have to buy a desktop and cinema 4D so I can do 4D things now. 😂😂😂😂

 

[hagjohn]

AMD would happily use Intel as a fab, if Intel’s fabs were any good.

With all the issues the past few years with the intel fabs, why the hell would anyone want to use them.

 

[pshufd]

lmao is this for real 😆

April Fools is another week away.

 

[pshufd]

Can you put it in a MacBook Air form factor?

 

[08380728]

ahha desperation, panic
Big boys don't cry 😭
Ooh, you'll wait a long time for me

 

[macduke]

By the time Intel gets this up and running, Apple will be on 3nm or 2nm. They really think they can do that after going 14nm+++++ for how many years? They only just now went 10nm. AMD is more likely than Intel to do fab work for Apple at this point. Intel doesn’t actually think they’ll get Apple’s business, they just want to sound like they’re still relevant via name dropping. That’s why they have this new ad campaign. It’s a desperate viral marketing ploy. And even if they do somehow skip head multiple fab gens, it will be years and they need to sell PCs with Intel chips in the meantime.

 

[pshufd]

Intel,die already..your simply incompetent in CPU business nowadays anyway.

Sounds like you're not going to be an i7-11700 customer.

 

[bousozoku]

Intel will have to change their “interface” to the design data, if they’re anything like they were back in the 2000s. They used mils instead of microns, all their terminology was weird and non-standard, they used their own weird file formats, etc. They were not set up to accept an arbitrary gdsii file from an outside source, even if it met their design rules, and their non-standard terminology made it hard to even understand their requirements. When I interviewed intel employees and asked them what their experience was, the words they used were not words used anywhere else in the industry.

They're the General Motors of chip makers.

 

[Zdigital2015]

Apple Silicon M1 on Intel’s cutting edge 14nm++++++ technology, Pat?! Pretty sure that will a hard pass from Apple. Maybe Qualcomm.

 

[DelayedGratificationGene]

It's important to remember that when companies are competing, they're not necessarily "enemies." One division of a company can be competing with another company's similar division, and yet two different divisions of both companies are working together tightly.

Another big example is Samsung; Samsung definitely competes with Apple when it comes to the phones themselves, yet Apple buys a crapton of display panels and other parts from Samsung to make their phones!

Companies work together and compete at the same time constantly, it's not weird and it's rare that they "hate each other" for lack of a better term.

Well put and it’s something that gets forgotten

 

[syklee26]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAH

 

[pshufd]

With all the issues the past few years with the intel fabs, why the hell would anyone want to use them.

What do you mean? They have the most mature 14++++++++++nm process in the world.

 

[Rigby]

Apple Silicon M1 on Intel’s cutting edge 14nm++++++ technology, Pat?! Pretty sure that will a hard pass from Apple. Maybe Qualcomm.

Gelsinger mentioned on the investor call today that Qualcomm is actually in talks about using Intel's US-based foundry to make their chips. Today Qualcomm depends entirely on TSMC.

 

[Zdigital2015]

Maybe this is corporate espionage to help Intel figure out how to get down to 5nm, since they obviously cannot do it by themselves.

 

[Zdigital2015]

Gelsinger mentioned on the investor call today that Qualcomm is actually in talks about using Intel's US-based foundry to make their chips. Today Qualcomm depends entirely on TSMC.

ROFLMAO! The jokes just keep writing themselves...I have been off the internet for most of the day, so this truly is news.

 

[qoop]

Wait you mean a 280w desktop processor is faster than a 10w mobile processor. I guess I’m gonna have to buy a desktop and cinema 4D so I can do 4D things now. 😂😂😂😂

Yes, it seems so. Let's hope Apple pull up their socks and make something faster 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

[Dark_Omen]

And after Intel steals Apple's design ideas, they'll be bankrupt after being sued.

 

[qoop]

They're the General Motors of chip makers.

GM has won countless awards for innovation, diversity and excellence. That's the thing about industry awards, you can trust them. (cf. Ted Lasso et al)

 

[Zdigital2015]

It’s not that I hate Intel, I really don’t. It’s just that they’re now that guy with the popped Izod collar and parachute pants, zero self awareness that they aren’t cool anymore and have a license plate that reads “$MMRS3V3” on their ‘85 IROC-Z.

 

[08380728]

Fabrication process requires a lot of water.
TSMC is in Taiwan a sub tropical area.
Taiwan didn’t get any cyclones bringing any rain so it’s in drought and TSMC are trucking water in.

Intel plan to build fabs in Arizona... Isn’t Arizona out in the desert with no water?
Curious why build there if water is the main resource required and it’s scarce?

 

[russell_314]

Yes, it seems so. Let's hope Apple pull up their socks and make something faster 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Maybe a MacBook with a small nuclear reactor powered M1Z. I'll risk the radiation poisoning to get the power 😂