Intel Eyes Apple Investment In Bid To Reboot Its Chip Business

Multi-billion dollar cash injections from NVIDIA, Japanese tech giant (and Arm owner) Softbank, and even the United States federal government haven't stopped Intel from seeing suitors willing to stuff more money into its pockets. According to a report from Bloomberg, Intel apparently approached none other than Apple about securing an investment.

On the face of it, this seems insane, particularly if you think of Intel as primarily a chipmaker. Apple abandoned Intel chips years ago, and just ten days ago released the final software updates for those machines. The company's home-grown 'Apple Silicon' processors are perfectly competitive with the best from Intel and AMD in the use-cases for which they're intended; Apple has no reason to have any interest in any of Intel's chip offerings.

It's not chips that Apple might take an interest in, though. By all accounts, Intel's 18A process is at ...