Intel To Produce Chips For Apple Again
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Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement under which Intel will manufacture some Apple processors at its Intel Foundry semiconductor fabs, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Intensive negotiations between the companies lasted over a year, and the parties finalized the agreement in recent months. The specific devices covered by the agreement are still unknown. Apple ships over 200 million iPhones annually, as well as millions of iPads and Mac computers.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo was the first to report on the potential partnership back in the fall of 2025. He indicated that Intel could begin producing M-series chips for Macs and iPads as early as 2027. In December, analyst Jeff Pu expanded his forecast: according to him, Intel could potentially receive orders for iPhone chips as well, but not before 2028.
In early May, Bloomberg reported that Apple was considering collaboration with both Intel and Samsung to reduce its dependence on Taiwanese chip maker TSMC. TSMC currently produces the vast majority of Apple Silicon chips, and this concentration of production remains a strategic risk for the company.
The report doesn’t specify which Apple products will use Intel chips. It also doesn’t mean Apple is returning to Intel processors for Mac computers. Instead, the report states that Intel will manufacture chips for Apple devices rather than supply its own x86 processors.
