While cyberspace is rife with rumours that Apple might be working with Intel to produce its mobile processors, Cult of Mac has a feature that looks at the whole idea in a different light:
For Intel:
"Intel is a business, and making other people’s chip designs for them just doesn’t make a lot of money."
"Even worse, if Intel started making ARM chips for Apple, it would be signalling that they had given up on pushing x86 in mobile."
And for Apple:
"Right now, Intel provides all of the processors for the Mac side of Apple’s business. Even if Apple and Intel had a falling out, it would be almost impossible for Apple to take its business elsewhere at this point: Intel’s chips are simply that much better than everyone else’s. The entire experience of using a Mac would notably degrade.
If Intel started making chips for Apple on the iPhone or iPad side of things, it would be great from a technical perspective. But it would give Intel total control over Apple’s destiny."
via Cult of Mac.
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