Intel promises to support two-year transition to Apple Silicon

Intel says it will continue to support Apple "across several areas of business," while insisting that its processors give a better experience than Apple Silicon.

In a statement to AppleInsider, Intel says that Apple remains a customer and that the company plans to continuing supporting them. This comes after Apple's announcement that it is transitioning away from using Intel processors, which Tim Cook says will take two years to complete.

"Apple is a customer across several areas of business," said an Intel spokesperson, "and we will continue to support them."

"Intel remains focused on delivering the most advanced PC experiences and a wide range of technology choices that redefine computing," continued the statement. "We believe Intel-powered PCs— like those based on our forthcoming Tiger Lake mobile platform— provide global customers the best experience in the areas they value most, as well as the most open platform for developers, both today and into the future."

At the end of Tim Cook's keynote, the Apple CEO stressed that the company was not cutting off Intel immediately.

"We expect to ship our first Mac with Apple silicon by the end of this year, and we expect the transition to take about two years," he said. "We plan to continue to support and release new versions of Mac OS for Intel based Macs for years to come."

"In fact, we have some new Intel based Macs in the pipeline that we're really excited about," he continued.

Apple released its first Apple Silicon-based Mac alongside the announcement, although solely a Developer Transition Kit which will not go on sale to the public.

40 Comments

FLMusic 17 comments · 5 Years

About 4 years ago

Give it up, Intel. You can't win this time. Though the fact that they dedicated a chip solely to Apple...

KTR 280 comments · 4 Years

FLMusic said:

Give it up, Intel. You can't win this time. Though the fact that they dedicated a chip solely to Apple...

I bet you there will be some people out there will try to persuade apple to License the chip to other hardware vendors. I wonder if the apple soc is capable of running windows natively?

saarek 1586 comments · 16 Years

Had a discussion with someone today who flat out refuses to accept that Apple chips based on RISC could ever match or exceed Intel Chips based on CISC for Pro users in multi core processing.

It will be interesting to see the benchmarks and what Apple comes up with.

magman1979 1301 comments · 11 Years

saarek said:

Had a discussion with someone today who flat out refuses to accept that Apple chips based on RISC could ever match or exceed Intel Chips based on CISC for Pro users in multi core processing.

It will be interesting to see the benchmarks and what Apple comes up with.

I bet there will be a LOT of deniers coming out of the woodwork over the coming days, weeks and months, poo poo'ing Apple's SoC's in favour of the old laggard Intel. Hell, I'd go with AMD over an Intel chip any day these days regardless!

Having seen how Apple just wiped the floor of the ARM competition with their A-series chips over the years, I have no doubt it'll do the same with Intel next.

saarek said:

Had a discussion with someone today who flat out refuses to accept that Apple chips based on RISC could ever match or exceed Intel Chips based on CISC for Pro users in multi core processing.

It will be interesting to see the benchmarks and what Apple comes up with.

Remember, the new os is beta. Not yet FULLY optimize. Time will tell.