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I wonder if this couldn't be the chance for Apple to make the definitive move towards vertical integration. If you think about it, it's the only missing part in their vertical integration story.

It would really be a sad day and the begin of truly dark era for the entire computing industry, though.

As an alternative... Amazon would probably be another interesting buyer. Amazon is another company dead serious about having their own silicon. And owning the main supplier of x86 chips as well in-house capabilities to manufacture their own Graviton chips would give them an incredible edge over other cloud computing providers.