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> And Intel's business health continues to have a strong dependence on Microsoft's business, which has to make the chip firm a little wary of taking the software company (or its customers) to court.

I mean, Apple and Samsung had a billion dollar lawsuit while Samsung chips were still in iPhones. It's certainly precedented to sue a corporation you're actively doing business with.



They had contracts so Samsung was bound and Apple did start using their own chips, so it's not at all certain that the law suit didn't further disturb the business relation.


I believe their chips continue to use samsung fabs today.


If GlobalFoundries didn't make these chips, Intel could pick up the slack... (Not to mention it is a consortium and not part of Samsung.)


Intel doesnt let anyone else use their fabs.


sure they do, Intel manufactured FPGAs for a long time before buying altera


I don't think FPGA's count in this context but I did a quick search on Intel fabs and it looks like I'm wrong anyway: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/08/intel-will-allow-arm...




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