If Apple doesn't have enough volume (laptop, desktop and workstation) to sustain a separate chip on latest cutting edge process (I don't know enough to even make a guess), what is the plan?

Do they plan to make one large chip (binned and/or features fused-off) to rule them all (phones, tablets, laptop, desktop and multi-chip workstation)?

Yes Apple has the capital and margins to sustain something else but they did not get that capital or those margins by spending more than their competitors.

Jacob

David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com) on November 20, 2020 6:35 pm wrote:
> Maynard Handley (name99.delete@this.name99.org) on November 19, 2020 8:22 pm wrote:
> >
> > OK guys, M1 time is over. What's next?
>
> I was thinking about that the other day.
>
> How large is Apple's market for desktops as opposed to laptops and other portable devices? They
> seem to be a smartphone company that happens to make some PCs. If their desktop market cannot
> support the development of a separate CPU, which seems likely, then they will design an improved
> CPU for the portable market and adapt it as best they can for their desktops. Why split their
> resources when the desktop is dead? Smartphones and tablets are where their money is.
>
> This is in contrast to Intel and AMD who develop for the desktop market and adapt
> for the server and portable markets. Both have run concurrent development for
> lower power applications in the past but that has never turned out well.
>