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Intel will experience a big decline in market share in 2022 as Apple further shifts away from Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon, Digitimes reports. It suggests that Apple will lose close to half its Apple orders this year. This is en route to Apple ditching all its Intel orders in the near future.
The report continues that:
“Intel is expected to lose nearly 50% of its orders from Apple in 2021 and will eventually obtain no orders from the client. Losing Apple’s 10% market share and seeing AMD staying firmly with another 10%, Intel’s share in the notebook market is likely to slip below 80% in 2023, the sources noted.”
That still makes Intel a hugely dominant player in this market, but nonetheless hurts it. Apple announced that it was moving away from Intel to its own Apple Silicon processors at last year’s WWDC, before shipping the first M1 Macs at the end of 2020. For now, you can still buy Intel Macs from Apple but it is gradually scaling these down. When Apple first showed off the Apple Silicon Macs, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said that “we expect the transition to take about two years.”
While Apple and Intel haven’t had a public falling out, raw nerves have definitely been exposed. In a recent presentation at Computex 2021, Intel promised its Windows laptops offer a “better gaming experience than 100% of Mac laptops.” Meanwhile, while it’s not necessarily a dig at Intel, so much as a hardware issue, many of macOS Monterey’s most exciting features won’t be available on Intel Macs. This includes Live Text, Portrait mode for FaceTime video calls, and others. That’s because they require Apple’s M1 chip.
Source: Digitimes
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