| >"Apple makes their own chips anyway!" Apple can only do that now, because of the billions they have made on the iPhone, plain and simple. And - more importantly - they were well geared to do that, since the beginning of computing. There being no money in SoC's, is because they're all being made across the other side of the planet, mostly, from the intended final users. If Intel were really 'leading edge', they'd have made desk-side custom fabrication a thing in the makerspace already. Such that I can, as a computer user, print 10 or 20 or X little chips, for my own specific purposes, non-mass-market. This would be a truly revolutionary adventure from a 'grandfather of computing' style company. Alas, the x86 is, indeed, everywhere. Grandfather Intel has a massive garden. If only the SoC battles were truly localized, and a real computing revolution can happen (before its too late). You should have a locally-built device in your hand. |