David Paul Morris | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe iPhone could have had an Intel chip inside.
It would've made sense to use Intel chips, which ran on the best desktops at the time, including Apple's Macs.
Braithwaite, who worked at Intel in the 1980s, said Intel's process engineers were the company's "crown jewels."
Intel doesn't have a GPU competitor to Nvidia's AI accelerators, but it has an AI chip called Gaudi 3.
For comparison, AMD expects about $2 billion in annual AI chip revenue.
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