how are intel and apple not competitors?
It's obvious to anyone with half a brain that they clearly are.
I think the relationship is potentially more like that of Samsung where they are both competitor in one segment and supplier in another.
I’d imagine an “Intel Manufacturing” division being a supplier, while an “Intel Design” division being a competitor. If “Intel Manufacturing” got their shit together, then they could be a viable supplier. As for “Intel Design”, they’d need to accept that the writing is on the wall for the x86 architecture, unless they do something radicle. When you have ARM chips running x86 apps as if they were native, then you have something that should be sounding alarm bells.
Right now Intel feels like Boeing and just being a poor competitor due too much focus on short term profits and not enough on long term growth.