Steve Jobs Planned to Put Intel Chips Inside the iPad

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Even though Apple tree'southward co-founder and quondam CEO, the tardily Steve Jobs has had problems with Intel, he yet, at some point in time, considered putting Intel chips inside the iPad lineup. This interesting tidbit recently surfaced from Walter Isaacson'south biography of the Apple genius Steve Jobs.

Apple started the iPad lineup with the launch of the showtime iPad way back in 2010. Since then, the Cupertino-tech giant has manufactured several iterations and generations of the iPad. However, none of these devices ever came out without an Apple chipset inside.

At present, if things turned out a bit differently, apart from powering the entire line of Mac products, the Intel chips might have powered the iPads or fifty-fifty the iPhones. "At the showtime, we were doing wonderful things together. They wanted this large joint project to do chips for future iPhones," said Steve Jobs, equally written by Isaacson.

He further mentions that when the first iPad was in its early stages of development, Jobs was planning to use the 'Intel Atom' chip to power the tablets. However, one of Apple'south cardinal executives at the time, Tony Fadell was confronting this conclusion of the CEO. Fadell, the man who helped bring the first iPod to life, did not want a chipset from whatever 3rd-party manufacturer like Intel. Instead, he suggested producing their own, in-business firm silicon chips for mobile devices.

Every bit a event, the iPhone-maker acquired two scrap-developing companies, the PA Semi and the Intrinsity, to produce their own SoCs. Following the acquisitions, the company went on to develop the Apple A4 chip, which powered the 1st-gen iPad, and later, the A5 chip.

In the biography, Steve Jobs explained his conclusion to not go with Intel chips for their mobile devices. So, according to him, "At that place were two reasons we did not get with them. I was that they are merely really slow. They are like a steamship, not very flexible. We are used to going pretty fast. 2d is that nosotros only did non want to teach them everything, which they could go and sell to our competitors," .

He further criticized the Intel fries, saying their "graphics suck" and the processors are non up to the standards of their ain A4 or A5 chipsets.

Now, if Jobs would have been alive, he would be completely backing the decision of switching to in-business firm chipsets for their Mac lineup. This way, Apple does not need to depend on any third-party component manufacturers for the chipsets of any of their devices.