[usconservative]

Hmmmm. Wonder if it’s time to buy Intel stock? I typically never pick individual stocks but in this case, it may make sense...

[Swordmaker]

Apple looks to Intel for its next iPhone7 and the next generation iPad combination A9 processor and Intel modem built as a System on a Chip (SOC) designed by Apple but built by Intel! — PING!

Apple iOS plus Intel SOC? Perhaps
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[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BFL

[BJ1]

I recently got an ASUS zenphone 2. $300 for the upgraded version with 4gb ram, 64gb memory. It uses an Intel SoC. When I was researching, appears to be as fast as the flagship phones from 2014. You could also get the 16gb model with 2gb ram for $200. Intel might have a nice chip. But this phone is way better than the flagship phone it replaced from 2013 that cost me $600. Realistically, these things are probably going to be so cheap like PCs have become. I dunno about investing in Intel. I’m not that smart.

[blam]

"While the SOC would be created from top to bottom by Apple’s formidable chip designers, Intel would get the job of fabricating the SOC using its 14-nanometer process."

Fourteen nanometers are the smallest feature sizes on the chip.

Let me explain how small that is, I'll step it down for you:

* A Caucasian human hair is about 100 microns in diameter.
* There are 10,000 angstroms within just one micron.
* One nanometer is about ten angstroms.
* Fourteen nanometers is 140 angstroms in size = about the same size as 150 carbon atoms.

Twenty plus years ago when I was printing these features, most were one micron or larger. I've already read that in two years they'll be running a 7 nanometer process.

[Bobalu]

When I think of innovative SoC design I think of Broadcom.

They are fabless though.... fabless but awesome :-)

[Scutter]

Smart move by Apple if true. Never good to be single-sourced on a key component like this.

[norwaypinesavage]

I developed a recording system using Intel’s first microprocessor chip, the four bit 4004 in the early ‘70s. Intel bragged that it used 75 people, working a whole 9 months to design the chip. This chip was the precursor to the eight bit 8087 IBM PC. My, how things have changed.