>Intel provides financial incentives for manufacturers who build products around their chips.
Yes, but I think the bigger picture, Apple needed Intel's iPhone modem for another year. May not be worth to damage the relationship, not to mention the design were likely finalise some time ago.
I would not be surprised if the Sale of Modem Business to Apple will include agreement to keep Intel CPU on Mac. ( For the time being )
And I am sure AMD should be aiming EPYC at the Datacenter usage of Apple, which is huge in itself, rather then the market of Mac Pro. Although Apple using AMD on Mac would be a pretty big statement to the rest of the market.
Yes, but I think the bigger picture, Apple needed Intel's iPhone modem for another year. May not be worth to damage the relationship, not to mention the design were likely finalise some time ago.
I would not be surprised if the Sale of Modem Business to Apple will include agreement to keep Intel CPU on Mac. ( For the time being )
And I am sure AMD should be aiming EPYC at the Datacenter usage of Apple, which is huge in itself, rather then the market of Mac Pro. Although Apple using AMD on Mac would be a pretty big statement to the rest of the market.