Former Intel engineer says Skylake caused Apple to switch to Apple SiliconSkylake had so many problems that Apple left.
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A former engineer at Intel says its Skylake chip caused Apple to finally switch to its own chips.
François Piednoël is the former principal engineer at Intel.
Piednoël says that Skylake's quality assurance was the "inflection point" for Apple.
The biggest news out of WWDC so far has arguably been Apple's announcement that it will be transitioning away from Intel for the Mac in favor of its own custom Apple Silicon architecture. One former engineer at Intel says that he knows why Apple decided to finally move on from the company.
Reported by PC Gamer, François Piednoël, the former principal engineer at Intel, says that its Skylake architecture is to blame for Apple's decision to switch to its own chips for the Mac. Piednoël says Skylake was seeing an abnormal amount of quality assurance issues, mostly discovered by Apple.
"The quality assurance of Skylake was more than a problem ... It was abnormally b...
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Former Intel engineer says Skylake caused Apple to switch to Apple Silicon
