Intel turned to Apple for investment because of financial difficulties

Miroslav Trinko Issue news editor on “borders”. Geek, specialty programmer, but journalist by profession. Rider, tennis player and fan of Formula-1. I write about technologies, smartphones and electric vehicles.

It was five years after Apple has given up Intel processors in favor of her own chip. Now, according to Bloomberg, Intel is looking for investments and negotiations with Apple about possible cooperation. The conversations are early and do not guarantee arrangements.

Intel is experiencing a difficult period: the company reduced 15% of employees and canceled plans for factories in Europe. In August, the US government purchased 10% of shares to speed up production in Ohio. After that, NVIDIA invested $ 5 billion in PC chip and date centers, and Softbank has invested another 2 billion Intel also trying to bring other companies to partnership.

Apple has used Intel processors for a long time in its Mac, but since 2020 it switched to its own Apple Silicon, which is produced by TSMC. Attempting to cooperate with Intel over 5G mods has also failed. The company was unable to create a good quality product and eventually sold this Apple business.

Experts do not expect Apple to return to Intel processors. It is more likely that if the agreement is, it will apply to the production of individual components for Apple, while key chips will continue to produce TSMC.