Are you referring to 5G radio modems or another chip?

indemnity 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Probably Intel’s fumble when Apple asked them for better performance per watt for the laptop CPUs and whether they wanted the iPhone CPU business back in 2006.

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chasil 6 days ago | parent [-]

A more recent motivation might be Apple's switch to in-house ARM for MacOS for similar reasons.

	▲	dannyw 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Well, they’re already funding so much ARM custom design, it’s not that incremental to tweak and scale for their laptops.

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toxic72 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably the Intel CPUs in Macbooks before Apple made the push for the M1 - circa the Intel quad core era where their laptop chips had major heat issues... ~2012 IIRC?

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dannyw 5 days ago | parent [-]

I’m not defending Intel here, but those Intel MacBooks never had appropriate thermal design or headroom for the processor’s operating specs.

	▲	toasterlovin 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think the theory is that they had an appropriate thermal design for cpus which were supposed to ship but never did.