Apple Ditched Intel Due to “Abnormally Bad” Skylake QA, Claims Insider

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During this week’s WWDC 2020 event, Apple officially announced that it would be transitioning away from Intel processors to ARM-based CPUs for its future Mac lineup. This diversion appears to have been long in the making, but according to one of blue team’s previous employees, Intel’s loss was driven by a key mistake that prompted Apple to do business elsewhere.



In a new video (via PC Gamer), ex-Intel principal engineer François Piednoël claimed that the lack of quality assurance with Skylake is what ultimately drove Apple into ditching blue team’s processors. “The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem,” he said. “It was...

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Apple has wanted to move to their own ARM chips for years. This was probably just the icing on the cake.