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2020-11-30, 20:03

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Originally Posted by pscates2.0 View Post
How is it possible? And what's the catch? Because there's one, somewhere.
Someone at Apple, around 2007, decided to make a long-term bet. They start buying companies like PA Semi and Intrinsity.

Meanwhile, someone at Intel saw how well their Core lineup was doing and got complacent. Core’s best days are yet to come.

Fast forward to 2017-ish: Apple’s bet starts to pay off in ways externally noticeable. Intel, meanwhile, made some strategic and engineering errors that lose them multiple years. AMD launches Zen and gets ahead in some areas.

2020: Intel is slowly recovering from their mistakes, but has now lost about half a decade. Apple is way ahead.
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