One of the great novelties of the last WWDC was the announcement made by the CEO of Apple about the goodbye to his partner for the last 15 years, Intel. Cook said he wanted the change to be made in two years. These "rush" to launch Apple Silicon, may be due to Skylake's bad grades.
The rumors became true at WWDC when Tim Cook announced that Apple would migrate to new processors. But the surprise was great, for everything, because none of us expected it, that he announced that it would be done in about two years. Apple leaves Intel and This one has affirmed that there is still wax to burn.
The most surprising thing is that it is done in that period of time and now we could have the reason for these "rush" at Apple. A report talks about the poor quality assurance of Intel's Skylake chips. An option that Apple cannot afford in such a competitive world and especially with the prices established for current Macs. It is not contemplated that a Mac fails and does it over due to components outside the company.
Francois Piednol, Former Intel engineer has stated in an interview:
Skylake's quality assurance was more than a problem. It was abnormally bad. Basically our friends at Apple became the number one problem in architecture. And that was very, very bad.
This is where the guys at Apple who were always thinking of changing, went, looked at it, and said, "Well we probably have to". Basically Skylake's poor quality assurance is responsible for them actually leaving the platform.
According to rumors, by the end of this year we will have the first Mac with Apple Silicon running. It's probably the 24-inch iMac or any other, but what is clear is that this migration will no longer be stopped.
