Re: The Fog Thickens

[Chris Harlan] "Huh. And here I thought the latest note on the relationship between those two companies was Apple making very public threats to leave Intel if Intel didn't adjust their processor line to suit them."

Apple leveraging their strength (real or perceived). There's the GPU battle in relation to this of course. Intel is not happy that Apple is dealing with AMD. Apple is not happy with Intel's "progress" on the integrated GPUs. This is all part of the speculation as to where nVidia fits in this. We (the public) don't know all the pieces but the argument is happening because there is a MUTUAL reliance involved. Apple, pushes out Intel's technology faster than anyone. In the USA Apple is the number 3 PC maker (they may be down around 6 or 7 world wide). HP has nixed Thunderbolt and Dell certainly hasn't stepped forward there either. So even as Thunderbolt moves to Windows, Apple is the number one PC maker as far as far sales of Thunderbolt PCs are concerned (baring a radical jump in Lenovo, Acer, Asus sales).