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.