Apple left Intel behind four years ago now, but a resurrected rumor says Apple is thinking about buying the long-running chipmaker. It's absolute nonsense, but if it ever happened, it would make a curious end to the Wintel story.
  • the16bitgamer@programming.dev
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    18 days ago

    While I can see why there’s a lot of doubt I can see one reason they would.

    For years now Apple has been moving things in house, like moving from Intel to their own designs and chips. And moving away from Snapdragon to their own modems.

    If they wanted to buy intel it would be for their fab capabilities to reduce their reliance on TSMC.

    Do I think they will… probably not, but as I said, I can see why they would.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      They’d be buying them for their chip foundries. Apple doesn’t want to have to contract out their chip production. Their whole MO is vertical integration - acquiring their own chip lithography and manufacturing lines would be a HUGE step in that direction.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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      18 days ago

      I doubt they enjoy having their balls in TSMC’s vice.

      Intel is the only option remotely available to leverage against them.

      • Starting from zero will cost bajillions and take decades to get competitive
      • Samsung’s probably not divisible in a way that makes their fabs buyable
      • They can’t buy into any of the 7nm/5nm level players in the PRC and fund their modernization due to sanctions
      • Does anyone else have sub-10nm at anything buy lab scales?
  • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    17 days ago

    How about Walmart buys Intel and Apple and then they buy all the grocery stores and every other store. Wow how simple and GRAND life would be. So many stores is so many confusion. We just need 1 company for everything. They should write the laws too.