Intel CEO Expands on Desire to Make Apple Silicon Chips, Touts 'Competitive Fun' With Apple

[pshufd]

I saw a video outlining Intel's plan and it did a better presentation than the articles that I've seen so far. Their plan looks solid. They have to execute though. Wall Street really liked their plan on Friday with a morning star candlestick formation.

I had a look at the i9-10900 as Intel is discounting tenth gen chips. I don't think that it's worth it for a 25% performance improvement but it might be at the right price. The 5900x is still sold out at all the places I check.

 

[huge_apple_fangirl]

If Intel were to fall it's reasonably likely a new startup (or even an Intel spinoff) would try to move into the space. TSMC already has some plans to begin making chips in the US. Texas Instruments have a fab in Richardson. Apple, Microsoft, Google are all perfectly capable of setting up their own foundries if they really wanted to. AMD or Qualcomm could buy up what's left of Intel.

If Intel were to fail then it's game over for advanced semiconductor manufacturing by US companies. The industry has been consolidating for years and no one is going to break into it. The idea that a startup will move into an industry where building even one advanced fab costs $10B+ is laughable. Taiwan values TSMC for geopolitical reasons and supports them, why shouldn't the US do the same for Intel? The US offers some of the lowest subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing, by giving Intel support all we're doing is leveling an unfair playing field.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Will we have a good future if sociopaths control our communication, manipulate our opinions, our finances and they are unelected and unaccountable?

As far as I can tell this is mostly been true throughout history except even elected officials have these traits.

 

[SlCKB0Y]

Those questioning why NVidia wants ARM? Look at it like this... They didn't have enough volume to keep Tegra in development.

Absolutely. They can see which way the wind is blowing with regards to ARM in both consumer computing devices and the data centre and despite Tegra being an initial failure in mobile, the soon-to-be 100 million Nintendo Switch consoles has at least kept the platform viable to some degree. Add to this the fact that rumours are circulating that the new Nintendo Switch will have some of their more advanced graphics features such as DLSS 2 and I think this demonstrates further commitment to ARM development beyond Nintendo’s requirements.

 

[piattj]

It's quite simple. Regular people have heard of Intel but they haven't heard of M1 or Apple Silicone or whatever and it will take a lot of time for Apple to bring people up to speed. So Intel acting quick by using it's flagship brand name in CPU game to paint Apple's transition to in-house chip design as something inferior. They can try. Intel fears Apple because Apple is great at marketing and knows how to get the message across unlike AMD. That's why Intel doesn't care about competing with AMD cause only place where AMD is eating Intel's pie are desktop PCs. AMD is nowhere near close to snatch laptop or server cakes but Apple could expand it's market share in laptop market if things go right with their chips and more importantly operating system. Intel has responded to M1 by introducing the fastest (and hottest) single core performance to date in a laptop. That's good enough for apps that like to rely on single core punch such as Photoshop, Office and many other vanilla apps.

silicon. silicone is for breast augmentation etc.

 

[pshufd]

silicon. silicone is for breast augmentation etc.

It's used in tennis racquets too.

 

[groove-agent]

Intel just sold out and reversed sides quicker than Justin Long did. Both equally desperate for work.