Why Apple ditched Intel? ex-Intel engineer says due to Skylake

Intel had a long partnership with Apple for its variety of products but recently, Apple announced that it will eventually move to its own Apple Silicon, ditching Intel for the first-ever in history. Now that will actually take some time for the evolution, in fact, with asking time of 2 whole years, but why Apple took such a decision?

During a chat with PC Gamer, former Intel principal engineer, François Piednoël, has spoken why Apple is shifting its Macs to its own ARM-based processors. Now, before this, we all had different reasons in mind why Apple could have done this, maybe because Apple wants to streamline the same architecture into all of its platforms including iPhone, iPad, MacBooks and its desktop Macs as well.

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Also, it could be because of the narrow performance gap that Intel had with Apple, as we know, Apple Bionic chips have become really powerful. It even matches or overcomes the Geekbench scores of the Skylake refresh CPUs and even the newer 10nm based Intel CPUs as well. The A12Z Bionic chip was already used to show demos and will be shipped in the developer’s kit as well.

So François Piednoël speaks up to say that the main reason why Apple took this decision long back because of Intel’s flaws with the Skylake architecture, which we all know had the been disaster since years, without any architectural improvement and paving way for security flaws more often than not.

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“The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem,” says Piednoël during a casual Xplane chat and stream session. “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. 

“When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you’re not leading into the right place.”

“For me, this is the inflexion point,” says Piednoël. “This is where the Apple guys who were always contemplating to switch, they went and looked at it and said: ‘Well, we’ve probably got to do it.’ Basically the bad quality assurance of Skylake is responsible for them to actually go away from the platform.”

For Intel, losing Apple is a huge loss and its just an addition to its bad days which already started since AMD bounced back with Ryzen in 2017. Tim Cook before ending his keynote told that there will still be new Intel-powered MacBooks but that will remain a point to be seen in the future after Apple is successful with its transition to its own ARM-based chips.

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