With netbooks and Windows-based laptops fading into a landscape increasingly dominated by tablets and smartphones, chip giant Intel would be wise to become Apple’s go-to for custom chips, one analyst reasoned Monday. “A partnership between the two companies would drive dominance in tablets similar to Wintel’s dominance in PCs,” Piper Jaffray chip expert Gus Richard tells investors.
Noting “Intel has no market share in the next wave of computing,” Richard also sees an opportunity for the chipmaker. Citing “a number of inputs” the analyst believes Apple is moving away from its contentious arrangement with Samsung (which has both sued and competes with the Cupertino, Calif. company) toward Intel, Toshiba and Micron, among others.
Such a deal only makes sense. Not only does Intel have prior relationship with Apple (its Sandy Bridge processor is expected soon in Apple’s updated iMacs), but any pact would come as the iPad-maker is still climbing higher with record profits.
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Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
16 responses to “Report: Intel Should Make Chips for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod”
“Windows-based laptops fading into a landscape increasingly dominated by tablets”
Ed, Can you back that up with facts or did that just sound good when you wrote the article ??
You don’t know much about computers do you Ed? :)
Are you kidding Intel can not make a video chip worth a damm. Time for apple to got AMD chips use the new all in one Fuzion cpu and video. The bench marks on this cpu look really good, the new 13 Mac Book Pro’s video scores went down no that they use intel video
You’re joking right? Apple, who invested in ARM (who specialise in low power processors suitable for embedded systems) should suddenly use Intel for portable stuff? ARM have 95% of the embedded systems market and there’s a good reason for that. Intel just can’t compete…
Two things:
1. Why the picture of a MacPro?
2. What every other commenter said is why not. Intel are best classified as the american car of CPU producers.
at the moment Intel is like Microsoft a dinosaur stuck with old school computing.For the last twenty years ARM have been in the wings designing low power mobile chips and it is the best chip maker of these type of chips. Apple has seen that the future of computing is going more mobile and ARM is the best.
Intel has fab capacity to spare. Consider what happens to Samsung’s profits when Apple goes to Intel for A5 (and later) CPUs and flash.
Hopefully not, arm is better for this devices.