Intel exec throws fuel on the "Intel to fab Apple chips" rumor fire

Heh - a few years ago the net eng on my team, who was a rabid apple fanboi, and I got into an arguement about the future of MACs

I said i was inevitable that apple would start putting Intel chips in their machines and he was adamant that it would NEVER happen.

He kept saing that the reason why MACs were good was because they were not x86 based - and that because of all the backwards compatibility issues that microsoft was to deal with on the x86 platform -- there would never be any way in hell apple would ever go that way.

Well, here we are -- and the thing is that we pay the premium for Apples industrial engineering and software engineering -- but the underlying chips will be homogeneous.