Intel Agrees to Manufacture Apple Silicon Processors, Joining TSMC

Robbie Whelan and Rolfe Winkler, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+): Apple and Intel have reached a preliminary agreement for Intel to manufacture some of the chips that power Apple devices, according to people familiar with the matter. Intensive talks between the two companies have been ongoing for more than a year, and they hammered out a formal deal in recent months, these people said. Bloomberg News previously reported the talks. It’s still unclear which Apple products Intel would make chips for, these people said. Apple ships more than 200 million iPhones a year as well as millions of iPads and Mac computers… President Trump personally advocated for Intel to Cook in a meeting at the White House, according to people familiar with the matter. “I like Intel,” President Trump said in January. He said the government had made “tens of billions of dollars” from the Intel deal, and that the government’s backing of the company had attracted important partners to Intel.…