A former Intel engineer claims that Apple is ditching x86 processors for Apple silicon because of the “bad quality assurance of Skylake.”
At its WWDC 2020 keynote, Apple announced a massive two-year transition away from Intel processors in Mac to Apple silicon. Although Apple said the switch is more about performance and platform consolidation, at least one former Intel staffer thinks it’s because of issues with Intel’s chips.
Former Intel principal engineer François Piednoël said that the quality assurance of the chipmaker’s Skylake architecture was “more than a problem,” according to PC Gamer.
“It was abnormally bad. We were getting way too much citing for little things inside Skylake,” Piednoël said. “Basically our buddies at Apple became the number one filer of problems in the architecture. And that went really, really bad.”
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