Why Apple Won’t Dump Intel x86 And Switch To RISC Technology ARM-Based MacBooks

TGDaily’s Aharon Etengoff reports that Intel CEO Paul Otellini is insisting that Apple won’t be ditching x86 processors for RISC-based chips ARM silicon in its MacBook lineup “any time soon.”

“Apple’s growth in Macs has quadrupled since they shifted to Intel. Their market share has quadrupled since they shifted [from PowerPC] to Intel,” Etengoff cites Otellini saying earlier this week during a company conference, adding “And that value proposition has served them very well. [As such], I don’t see their Mac line moving in any different direction any time soon.”

Neither do I, notwithstanding a burst of rumor buzz recently suggesting that Apple might be fixing on switching its MacBook families from Intel processors to ARM-based chips of its own design like the A4 and A5 CPUs used in current iPhones and iPads. For the reason cited by Mr. Ottelini as well as several other good ones — technical, business, and diminished compatibility with the dominant Windows ecosystem, I think the notion of Apple dumping Intel fro ARM in its MacBook families of laptops is absurdly fanciful, to put it mildly, however, I wouldn’t rule out Apple’s making an ARM-based clamshell laptop running the iOS to compliment its lines of mobile handheld i-devices.

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