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> No way are they going to negotiate to raise prices in a meaningful way against their largest client. Why not? It's not like Apple will have anywhere else to
by sapiogram 3y ago
> No way are they going to negotiate to raise prices in a meaningful way against their largest client.
Why not? It's not like Apple will have anywhere else to go for the next 8 years. x86 cores are too slow and power-hungry for the foreseeable future, and building their own risc-V core will take... at least 8 years.
- wtallis 3y ago8 years sounds like an absurdly long time to retrofit a different instruction set onto an existing CPU core design.