BC, You point well made. Published reports focus on the mobile cell phone ships.
In fact Apple will not use Intel chips for mobile radio communication in the iPhone. This has lead to the observation that if Apple does its own mobile cell phone radio chip, then they would also do some other stuff that works better if it is designed together.
Back in April, Bloomberg ’s
Alex Webb had talked about Apple’s efforts to get even more profit out of the hardware they sell. He said Apple will not use lintel chips in the Mac in 2020. He did mean the CPU. His thought is the i Apple does a radio chip, they will do a CPU also. Of course, Apple has not confirmed this.
Alex Webb is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Europe's technology, media and communications industries. He previously covered Apple and other technology companies for Bloomberg News in San Francisco.
So that is an opinion by a Bloomberg columnist. He might be right. Or not.
(He has opinions on other topics also.)