Intel Says It’s Fun to Compete Against Apple

Apple is stepping away from Intel chips, as the company is investing big in customer ARM-based Apple Silicon, so in the long term, it looks like the two firms would rather become competitors than work together. But Intel’s new CEO Pat Gelsinger said in a recent interview with Yahoo Finance that he’s still hopeful his company would work together with Apple, though he admitted that competing against the Cupertino-based tech giant is fun. “Apple is a customer, and I hope to make them a big foundry customer because today they're wholly dependent on Taiwan Semiconductor. We want to present great options for them to leverage our foundry services, as well, just like we're working with Qualcomm and Microsoft to leverage our foundry. We're going to be delivering great technology, some things that can't be done anywhere else in the world,” he said. Indeed, Inte...