> I knew that Intel not landing the first iPhone contract was a big loss on mobile
Funnily enough Intel also had the best/most competitive ARM cores with XScale in the early 2000s which seemed like the default option for most high-end devices at the time. I wouldn't have been surprised if Apple would've just went with that (even if not x86) if Intel hadn't decided to can it without actually having any viable x86 SoC to replace it...
Funnily enough Intel also had the best/most competitive ARM cores with XScale in the early 2000s which seemed like the default option for most high-end devices at the time. I wouldn't have been surprised if Apple would've just went with that (even if not x86) if Intel hadn't decided to can it without actually having any viable x86 SoC to replace it...