For months it has been rumored that Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), si Intel could enter into a partnership to manufacture future iDevice chips, and now seems to be a good time to enter into such a partnership. Based on the recent decline in PC sales, those from Intel would calculate concluding a contract with Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), for manufacturing chips for iDevices, helping them remain profitable at a time when PC manufacturers are considering selling off the divisions that make these products.
Does it make sense for Intel to let Fab 42 sit idle as an empty shell or will Intel consider another radical move and put the fab to use manufacturing ICs for another, possibly competing, company? While TSMC and Globalfoundries are expected to receive a portion of the Apple business at the 14nm process node, IC Insights believes that Intel finds itself in an enviable position of being able to secure a large portion of Apple's application processor business at the 10nm node using Fab 42.
Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), has been trying for years to give up Samsung for the manufacture of iDevice chips and other components for terminals, and Asian analysts claim that this change could take place now. Intel is able to produce the future chips of iDevices using a 14nm manufacturing process, the current partners of the Cupertino company not being able to produce enough components of this kind using the same manufacturing process.
Although we are talking about a rumor, now seems like a good time for Apple to take advantage of those from Intel, but it remains to be seen if it will find a way to conclude a contract.
