Intel CEO Hopes to Win Back Apple by Making Better Chips Than Apple

[bradl]

I for one am looking forward to an intel-free ecosystem. I’ve got a Ryzen 5900X 3080ti gaming pc for heavy duty workloads and hopefully an M1X MacBook Pro for everything else in a week.

Same here. Ryzen 7 sitting in my PC along with a Radeon r9 280 that is still going strong after 5 years, and that was from upgrading from a Core i5-3570K. Haven't looked back.

If all goes well, I'll be off of Sandy Bridge when I purchase whatever new Mac gets dropped tomorrow.

BL.

 

[beerseagulls]

this is probably Tim Cook's reaction?

 

[Kylo83]

Good way to get back into apples good books by making cringe adds dissing apple

 

[rotivdik]

Lol let's not get ahead of ourselves and beat AMD first?

 

[Realityck]

They hope to win back Apple by making better chips with 7 nm manufacturing process technology?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

There is no way Intel is going to make better chips than Apple. Apple is way far ahead now. Too late Intel.

 

[blar]

Apple world: When are all of our laptops moving to Apple silicon, it can't happen soon enough!
PC world: When are all of our laptops moving to AMD Ryzen silicon, it can't happen soon enough!
Intel world: You can keep your coffee warm on an old Xeon.

 

[waterfta]

I'm getting a bit sick of each laptop I buy getting hot when doing anything remotely intensive. Not until the the M1 came out did I start to realize that it was possibly Intel's chips holding back Apple in this space. I'm using a Surface Laptop 4 that spins up the fans and heats whatever it's sitting on if I open a YouTube video and something else at the same time. The idea that I could buy a device that doesn't do that is honestly enough of a reason to be excited about the next Macbook, especially without Intel inside.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Apple world: When are all of our laptops moving to Apple silicon, it can't happen soon enough!
PC world: When are all of our laptops moving to AMD Ryzen silicon, it can't happen soon enough!
Intel world: You can keep your coffee warm on an old Xeon.

It may not happen ever again.

 

[bradl]

At one time I believed that Apple will keep selling and updating Intel machines for a few more years (There are still pros that absolutely need Intel processors). While I think they’ll need to keep an Intel machine or 2 in their line-up for another year or so, it sounds like Apple is going to abandon Intel quicker than I would have thought.

If I remember correctly, it was at last year's Mac event that Tim gave the 2-year warning for Apple completely dropping Intel products in their Macs. This upcoming model is the one-year warning. I'd expect there to be no Intel models this year, and would definitely expect to see no Intel models next year at all.

BL.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Why is there a hope for this Intel? Apple is long gone.

 

[Analog Kid]

That ship has sailed… Intel is desperately trying to sound relevant. To answer that question any other way is to admit you can’t compete

 

[0924487]

a piece of advice. Watch max tech’s video uploaded a few months ago on YT regarding companies moving to use ARM, because they know ARM is the future not x86 (even Intel knows this)

RISC-V is the ultimate future. All universities and newer companies have switched to it.

 

[Joe The Dragon]

If I remember correctly, it was at last year's Mac event that Tim gave the 2-year warning for Apple completely dropping Intel products in their Macs. This upcoming model is the one-year warning. I'd expect there to be no Intel models this year, and would definitely expect to see no Intel models next year at all.

BL.

mac pro??

Pros need pci-e, at least be able to drive 2 8k+ displays, lots of ram, NON apple storage on pci-e and sata.

 

[sir1963nz]

So Intel Spokesperson makes the right noises for the share holders.
But ask yourself, did Apple go back to Motorola, or IBM ?
Apple is developing chipsets the suit their FUTURE products line, not shoe horn in a current intel chip.
Apple has learned that allowing Intel to dictate the future was a BAD idea.

 

[fel10]

You know

 

[wilhoitm]

It is amazing that Apple's chip making capabilities are light years ahead of Intel's capabilities! And Intel's sole focus is to make chips! This is almost worst than Microsoft's mobile phone! 🤣

 

[Homme]

RISC-V is the ultimate future. All universities and newer companies have switched to it.

i agree since ARM as a whole is solely based on it and apple not long ago advertised a position in relation to RISC-V

 

[Krazykev]

Intel lost their way and they have their own hubris to blame. The statement about winning back Apple is case in point. If I were an Intel investor, I'd be concerned about a CEO that can't even acknowledge X86 is not compatible with true mobility and battery efficiency. Apple at least recognized it years ago by choosing reduced instruction SOCs for phones and tablets. Intel was asleep at the wheel and wasn't even in the running.

 

[puckhead193]

You don’t think a conversation was held in a boardroom with some high earning execs saying your chips aren’t up to expectations. If this doesn’t change we are ending the relationship. So now that the relationship is over with Apple they are finally going to make better chips. 🙄

 

[Homme]

Well, good luck Intel, I do hope that they can improve, and, if they are as successful as he claims - competition is a good thing.
Having said that, Intel is not only “fighting” Apple, there’s a bunch more companies rumored to doing ARM for laptops (MS, Google…), they are losing ground in the server space, and then there RISC-V…
You’re gonna be busy, very busy Intel

lol intel “ improve”

lets see

being on 14nm for ages and finally on 10nm processors since late last year I believe,

wasted they’re time dissing king apple with pointless ads and interviews regarding M1

not realizing ARM is the future and still relying on x86

heck they couldn’t improve on theyre modems so bad that apple is doing they’re job for them

any more I missed…

 

[Unregistered 4U]

If Intel uses TSMC, x86 chips may match Apple Silicon performance.

Nah, Intel’s x86 problem is their x86. Using TSMC might help them make their inefficient stuff smaller/cheaper, but no less inefficient and hot. Intel will always have a home in places where efficiency is not a concern, but the places where it IS a concern is growing year by year.

 

[macduke]

“I’ll make you love me by abusing you!”

Intel the abusive ex-boyfriend confirmed.

 

[JesperA]

i agree since ARM as a whole is solely based on it and apple not long ago advertised a position in relation to RISC-V

I have not seen a single RISC-V based ARM CPU in the consumer market so to claim "ARM as a whole is solely based on it" is a slight exaggeration, ARM uses RISC, not RISC-V

 

[bradl]

mac pro??

Pros need pci-e, at least be able to drive 2 8k+ displays, lots of ram, NON apple storage on pci-e and sata.

If Tim's words are true, then I would expect the Mac Pro to go Silicon as well, but not have an Intel offering after next year, as Apple is trying to phase out all Intel CPUs by next year. That would leave room for one last Intel Mac, but that would be it.

But nothing in the portable line will have it.

BL.