There was a time before the Apple iPhone and other smartphones roamed the earth when people relied on their computers to access the internet. At the time, it was said that Intel is the Gold Standard of chipmakers. But that was then and nowadays Intel no longer has the same reputation. Intel also had issues with its 10nm process node and delayed the release of its 7nm manufacturing process until 2022.
Last week, Intel CEO Bob Swan flew away from the company from February 15th. His replacement, Pat Gelsinger, returns to the herd; a veteran of Intel with more than 30 years of experience at Intel, Gelsinger recently spent his days as CEO of VMare. While Gelsinger will only take over mid-next month, he apparently feels the heat of Apple’s M1 chip. The latter is equipped with 16 billion transistors. Compare that to the 11.8 billion transistors standardized in the A14 Bionic (which was 38% higher than the 8.5 billion transistors found in the A13 Bionic).
The Apple M1 is an impressive slide
Maybe Intel’s next CEO was just trying to motivate the firm’s employees. The point of the remark is that Intel is a company that manufactures chips, chips and chips. As a result, the chips it manufactures should be better than those designed by Apple, which makes different products to improve the lives of consumers. In other words, Gelsinger looks at the M1 and says that how can we let ourselves be surpassed by a company that really does not concentrate on chips and is rather consumer electronics.