After 15 years, Apple prepares to dump Intel from the Mac

Signaling both the end of one of the tech industry’s most influential partnerships and Apple’s determination to control the primary technologies inside their products, Apple is set to announce the long-expected removal of Intel CPUs from the Mac.
Steve Jobs and Intel’s Paul Otellini, January 10, 2006 (photo credit: AP/Paul Sakuma)
Don Clark and Jack Nicas for The New York Times:Apple has been working for years on designing chips to replace the Intel microprocessors used in Mac