Apple may hand Intel a slice of its chip business in a major supply chain shift
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Rumor mill: Apple is considering a shift in how some of its most important components are manufactured after reaching a preliminary agreement with Intel to produce a portion of the chips used in its devices, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions have been underway for more than a year and recently evolved into a formal arrangement, though key details remain unresolved. It is still unclear which Apple products would be covered by the deal.
The scale of Apple's hardware business makes even a limited manufacturing shift significant. The company sells more than 200 million iPhones each year, along with large volumes of Macs and iPads. Apple and Intel both declined to comment.
The talkscome at a time when Apple's long-standing reliance on TSMC is under increasing strain. Although Apple...
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