While Intel and Apple partnership is reduced to the use of processors of the first companies in computers and laptops from the second. Nevertheless, the intermediate results of this collaboration, make Intel very happy.
The head direction PC Client Group Kirk Skaugen at a meeting with investors this week admitted that Intel is very grateful to Apple for their joint work on the energy optimization of processors used in laptops MacBook Air. Jointly runtimes within the last generation of these devices has managed to increase from 6 to 12.5 hours.
Additionally, Intel is very pleased with the fact that Apple has transferred a significant portion of iMac and MacBook Pro products to use the built-in Intel graphics processors Iris Pro. Previously, Apple prefers to rely on discrete graphics.