A lack of competition.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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I think they'll recover. Letting them fail would be a national security problem.
Oh they won't die. The question is will they recover to their old market position, will they downsize and be second fiddle to AMD but remain generally profitable, or will they have a slow managed decline like IBM?
I think IBM was different because its lunch was eaten almost entirely by other American companies (chiefly Microsoft). That probably wouldn't be the case if Intel were allowed to declined in a similar manner.
Can’t remember the full details of the deal, but I seem to recall a story about how Apple approached Intel to manufacture a low-powered processor for mobile (for the first iPhone). At the time, Intel didn’t see money in mobile processors and passed on the deal. Additionally, for years, Apple asked for more powerful chips for the MacBooks. At the time, the iPads were surpassing MacBooks in speed on some tasks. Finally, Apple decided that since they were already designing their own silicon for iPhones and iPads, they might as well just do the same for the MacBooks as well since Intel couldn’t keep up.
Again, this is largely from memory. I can’t remember the source, so take it with a grain of salt.
if you keep look at the mirror you crash at the end.
Mobile strategy, I.E. lack thereof.
G.P.U.
I’m personally in love with ARM. I choose it for my router, Raspberry Pi and my MacBook is also ARM.
…but this still saddens me. I want to see good competition in the sector and I still have a soft spot for x86_64 on the server.