Apple Buys Chips from Intel. What?

[Geek-9pm]

I thought it was a joke. Never mind.

It is not a joke. Not a rumor. Just hard to believe.

Go ahead and Google it. You will see it pop up in a few hours.

Or check this search:
Apple Buys Chips from Intel.

Comments? 

[patio]

Why wouldn't they ? ?

[Geek-9pm]

It is a tradition!
Chips in the iPhone have to be Qualcomm!
Here is what WSJ says:
http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2016/06/10/qualcomm-iphone-slippage-baked-in/

Bloomberg reported Friday that Apple will use modem chips from Intel for some versions of the iPhone 7 coming this fall. That reportedly includes the version that AT&T sells in the U.S. Such chips, also known as baseband processors, are a huge part of Qualcomm’s business, though not as profitable as the company’s patent-licensing arm. Qualcomm has supplied baseband chips for the iPhone since 2010, when Apple began building a CDMA version of the smartphone.

   

[camerongray]

There is nothing that restricts them to using Qualcomm chips.  We are also talking about the baseband processors, the actual system on chip (CPU, GPU.etc) used in the iPhone are designed by Apple themselves, not Qualcomm.