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> The advantage is Apple prioritizing efficiency, something Intel never cared enough about.

Intel cared plenty once they realized that they were completely missing out on the mobile phone business. They even made X86/Atom chips for the phone market. Asus for example had some phones (Zenfone) with Intel X86 chips in them in the mid-2010s. However, Intel Atom suffered from poor power efficiency and battery life and soon died.



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