Here we go again - Apple again rumored to buy Intel
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Makes no sense.
Three months ago Intel stock dropped 30% overnight... so if Apple are even thinking about it then now is a good time.
I could see them buying ARM/ deepening the relationship with ARM. But Intel?
I doubt they enjoy having their balls in TSMC's vice.
Intel is the only option remotely available to leverage against them.
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.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
Watch them buy AMD.
Fuck please no
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.
This is about as likely as them buying NXP (who bought Freescale, which used to be Motorola PowerPC)
Don’t really need them.
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.