Intel processors aren't crap. For the money, they most certainly are crap. Intel has held back technology by using unfair business practices to forward inferior products. If AMD had been able to sell Athlon FX and Athlon 64 to Dell or Compaq or any of the other companies Intel bribed to buy its processors we would be using AMD laptops that would most likely be orders of magnitude cheaper and faster. You never know, we might have cured cancer with the extra computing power. Intel very well may have caused millions of deaths with its unrestrained greed.

baseless speculation when it comes to evidence of Apple ditching Intel.

"Baseless speculations?" How about for the first time ever, apple wasn't the first to use an intel architecture (core M)? How about the fact that Broadwell-H is now being released, and more evidence shows up in Apple not even buying it at all!. Not only have they stopped being the first people to get intel processors, they appear to not have any interest in Broadwell at all. That doesn't speak well for intel no matter how you spin it. This is a parallel to what happened in 2006 with IBM. They were saying the same stuff back then, that intel is saying now: "Our business partnerships with Apple are strong", "there is nothing going on", "please ignore the huge layoffs and falling revenue, we're all good".

It doesn't take a genius to see that history repeats itself, and we are seeing that now with Intel's beginning its slow demise. Don't get me wrong, it will be years before intel even lowers its stock price. Why? Because, as we can see by this recent round of layoff, intel values its stock price over almost anything else, and they will sacrifice the blood of the company and of its customers if they have to in order to keep its fat cat investor sugar daddies happy. They have shown themselves to be nothing but a ball and chain on the entire tech industry.

I look foreward to hearing the outcry on these forums when they announce the ARM macbook air. Just wait, it'll be glorious.