At WWDC this week, Apple confirmed its plans to switch the processors in its Mac computers from Intel custom processors to its own ARM processors during a two-year transition period.
While Apple says the change is solely due to platform integration and performance benefits, at least one former Intel insider claims that quality control issues with the Skylake chips were the reason for Apple's final decision to drop Intel.
In an interview with PC Gamer, former Intel engineer Francois Piednoel indicated that there were issues with Skylake's quality assurance. Basically, Intel's partners at Apple reported the most architectural issues.
Francois Piednoel said: "When your customer starts finding almost as much bugs as you found yourself, you're not leading into the right place."
Rumors have been circulating for years that Apple was interested in ARM-based Mac computers, but it's only now that Apple has confirmed the plans, saying that the first Mac computers with custom chips will be released in late 2020.
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