Apple will help Intel make 1 Billion dollars.

[Geek-9pm]

A few months a go, back in October Intel and Apple let it be known  rte next iPhone would have a new Intel CPU that would be better than anything Intel ever made.

The  details have yet to be fully disclosed, but Intel is making big frags about how great, wonderful  and  glorious it will be.
Oh, and it will bring in a cool Billion dollars.

The report says Intel may capture half of all modem chips powering the upcoming iPhones, which could amount to as much as $1.25 billion in additional revenue

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Here is my question. Does anybody have some public real facts about this?

[DaveLembke]

1 Billion for Intel is nothing really less than 2% of sales. I havent heard anything further on this, but did hear about it somewheres a few months back. Im kind of curious as to how badly Motorola took a hit when Apple left using their CPUs in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple's_transition_to_Intel_processors

[Geek-9pm]

Intel is in the red. So any gain is good news for the stockholders.
About Motorola:

The handset division (along with cable set-top boxes and cable modems) was later spun off into the independent Motorola Mobility. On May 22, 2012, Google CEO Larry Page announced that Google had closed on its deal to acquire Motorola Mobility.[9] On January 29, 2014, Google CEO Larry Page announced that pending closure of the deal, Motorola Mobility would be acquired by Chinese technology company Lenovo for US$2.91 billion (subject to certain adjustments).[10] On October 30, 2014, Lenovo finalized its purchase of Motorola Mobility from Google.[11

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola

Up to now Apple has used ARM chips. As you know, ARM is not a factory, it is a company that holds design patents. So with Motorola out, they either had to buy a factory or go with Intel. ( A chip factory is also called a foundry.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication_plant

So, it is not enough to have a great design, you have to find a big firm that can make the chips economically.
At this point in time, thee is nobody like Intel. Maybe IBM.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Intel-vs-NVIDIA-IBM-Mellanox-AMD-and-everybody-626/
So, your next Apple will have the sticker on it.

 

[camerongray]

I can't see what Motorola Mobility has to do with this, Apple's chips are currently made by Samsung or TSMC. There is also nothing that I can find that states that the iPhone will contain an Intel x86 CPU, more than likely (if there is any truth to the whole Intel thing at all) they are using Intel to design a system on chip that will integrate the ARM CPU with an Intel modem.

[Geek-9pm]

To help clarify things, the current Apple chip is the A8.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A8

The A8 is manufactured on a 20 nm process[3] by TSMC,[1] which replaced Samsung as the manufacturer of Apple's mobile device processors. It contains 2 billion transistors. Despite having twice the number of transistors