Here we go again – Apple again rumored to buy Intel
Apple left Intel behind four years ago now, but a resurrected rumor says Apple is thinking about buying the long-running chipmaker. It’s absolute nonsense, but if it ever happened, it would make a curious end to the Wintel story.
Apple did buy Intel’s entire modem division back in 2019, but this rumor says it would just acquire the whole firm. The same rumor does say that perhaps Samsung would be more likely, and there are even others, but it’s Apple who would be most interesting. Not to mention the most funny.
For back in the day, Windows and Intel were this dominant partnership. They were so strong that the PC was regularly referred to as Wintel, and it was Wintel machines that kept the Mac struggling to even be a niche player.
Rumor Score: 💩 B#$&(*it
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