INTEL - inside your grandma's computer running up the electric bill. For shame!!! Grandma is on a fixed income.
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Intel CEO Expands on Desire to Make Apple Silicon Chips, Touts 'Competitive Fun' With Apple
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Let's be honest; when's the last time they did that? What would Apple invite them for, modems? I'm not sure there's any hardware business who would appear on an Apple stage any time soon (except for the Car)
In an interview with Yahoo Finance today, Intel's newly appointed CEO Pat Gelsinger said that the ongoing competition between his company and Apple is "fun," while also saying he hopes to make amends with the Cupertino tech giant.
Over the next two years, Apple will transition its Mac lineup away from Intel processors to its own Apple silicon chips. Apple is already well underway on the transition, having released three Mac computers based on its M1 SoC. Intel in response launched a marketing campaign last week to label Macs and M1 as inferior to Intel processors.
Despite the barrage of attacks, Gelsinger has indicated that he hopes to have Apple as a future customer. In his interview with Yahoo Finance, Gelsinger said that Apple relies too heavily on its current supplier, TSMC, for manufacturing Apple silicon and that Intel wants to offer its own services instead.Gelsinger attributed the recent tense competition with Apple to the fact that there's still room for innovation in the industry and the bonus that PC demand is the highest it's been in over a decade. Gelsinger went on to say there's "competitive fun going on with Apple and the Mac ecosystem."As part of its anti-Apple silicon marketing campaign, Intel recently hired former "I'm a Mac" actor Justin Long to star in a series of ads comparing M1 Macs to laptops powered by Intel processors. Additionally, Intel has turned to Twitter for the campaign and has created its own website to compare M1 Macs against PCs.
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this guy even seems wormish like.
Steve was the one wanted Intel SoC inside iPhone, until certain colleague put his badge on the table. ( I cant remember who that was )
With the chip shortage only getting worse, I think it’s ok for intel to enter this market. Makes it easier for force tsmc and intel to compete for everyone’s chip business.
our computers/cars/houses/infrastructure are only gonna get smarter, and we’ll need these fabs to create the future.
our computers/cars/houses/infrastructure are only gonna get smarter, and we’ll need these fabs to create the future.
Have you ever punched someone and 1 min later and said it was for "fun". Pathetic Intel.
Yeah, I knew a guy who thought going around and kicking other guys in the nuts was fun. Didn’t turn out well for him.
In both cases, Apple is financially supporting a competitor. That's the point.
Intel is barely on their 10nm process in designing x86-64 processors, but the Apple M processors use a different architecture, ARM, so comparing these two processes may not be possible. I am not a chip designer, but I am pondering your observation
They wouldn't be comparing anything 10nm to what M1 is.. Ice Lake, Cooper Lake, and Cascade Lake are barely in that 10nm region.. Meteor Lake is struggling to even be ready by 2Q for 7nm, and TSMC is already working on 4nm and 3nm, so even if Intel caught up to what the M series is at at the time the M1 Mac Mini and MBA came out, they would still be a good 9 months to 2 years behind.
BL.
yea, but first of all — they aren't creating competition by doing this. and secondly — apple doesn't produce all of the components that go into their products. never did. probably never will, either.
Apple slammed Microsoft Windows all the time in its commercials while relying on them selling Office for the Mac.
Is it normal for sinking ships to increase YoY revenue and generate billions in profits and free cash flow?
- Full-year revenue set an all-time Intel record of $77.9 billion, up 8 percent YoY.
- In 2020, Intel generated a record $35.4 billion cash from operations and $21.1 billion of free cash flow (FCF) and returned $19.8 billion to shareholders.
This has all the hallmarks of an abusive relationship. “I was just having fun with you, don’t be so serious all the time... can I have some of your money?”
Benchmarks are just that. Real everyday usage is different. For my uses (compiling code), my 2019 (Intel) MBP is way faster than my M1.
