Comments by "Maggie Jetson" (@maggiejetson7904) on "America’s Big Chipmaking Blunder" video.

  1. CPU profit margin is not that high and Intel was not in mobile business (cell phone) that needed the low power chips. Apple was willing to pay anything to make it, as it doesn't make money off chip but off the phones and ecosystem (software, icloud, etc). Intel miscalculated that they were only competing with other companies making chips instead of phones and ecosystem money.
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  2. While TI just shut down their DSP and modem business and focus on popcorn commodity chips with no margins.
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  3.  @AutoDisheep  they thought they had the monopoly so if they don't buy it they would still be ok.
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  4. Not exactly. The risk of in house fab is too high and therefore many just switch to fabless model. Qualcomm, Apple, nVidia, AMD all succeed as fabless. Intel got its monopoly with its own fab and even they couldn't swallow the risk of pushing for the latest most expensive fab alone (according to its own accountant).
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  5. Actually, Nikon or Canon could have bought it instead.
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