Stefan Mileschin

Skylake forced its hand

Fruity cargo cult Apple was so miffed at Intel that it was effectively forced to come up with another solution.

Intel engineer Francois Piednoel told PC Gamer that while there were lock in advantages for Apple, moving to ARM was simply getting fed up with Chipzilla.

Even before rumors of Apple ditching Intel for ARM-based chips emerged, there were a number of instances where Apple was forced to push back Mac releases due to delays with chip development at Intel. Some models, with the iMac being a prime example, would sometimes linger without a significant update for years.

Then Apple had problems with Chipzilla’s SkyLake processors which arrived late and were prone to bugs that Jobs’ Mob discovered during the development process.

Piednoel said: “The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem. It was abnormally bad. We were getting way too much citing for little things inside Skylake. Basically our buddies at Apple became the number one filer of problems in the architecture. And that went really, really bad.

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