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Intel isn"t making sufficient processor chips to take care of demand. Now this has been going on for some time but the reason it’s making headlines now is because as we near the holiday season, PC sales are expected to jump. Now analysts J.P. Morgan think the Intel situation is going to be a problem. The firm gauges the Intel processor and chipset lack will sting final quarter PC shipments by 5 to 7 percent. According to Gokul Hariharan who is J.P Morgan’s Asia-Pacific technology analyst who spoke to CNBC, "Our conversations with PC vendors indicate that the shortage, which started in small magnitude in 3Q, has been progressively worsening and is likely to have the maximum impact in 4Q18. This drove Intel shares down 0.1 percent on Friday in a sign that there may actually be a shortage by year’s end. He continued by saying "We expect this to affect both notebook and desktop PCs and likely to have a higher impact on commercial and high-end consumer PCs, where using...

In 2005, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs made the public aware of its intention to transit. The transition was from the use of PowerPC microprocessors supplied by Freescale (formerly Motorola) and IBM in its Macintosh computers, to processors designed and manufactured by Intel. The announcement was made at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Moving forward, Apple is reportedly planning to drop Intel chips from its Mac computers as early as 2020, replacing them with processors designed in-house, the goal? To make Mac Computers in the same way the company manufactures iPhones and iPads according to a new report from Bloomberg . The switch would be a big blow to Intel, whose partnership helped revive Apple’s Mac success and linked the chipmaker to one of the leading brands in electronics. Apple provides Intel with about 5 percent of its annual revenue, according to Bloomberg supply chain analysis. Intel shares dropped as much as 9.2 percent, the biggest intraday drop in more th...