Steve Jobs Secretly Prepared Apple for Intel Chip Transition Four Releases in Advance

What was said

"I remember when we had the first conversation with Steve about porting the operating system to the Intel chip. We were quite proud of our silicon software competencies. Steve, we'll help you port the operating system to the x86. And I remember that Steve said, I've been working on that for the last 4 releases."

Pat Gelsinger reveals that Steve Jobs had been covertly preparing Apple's operating system for a potential Intel chip transition for four releases before announcing it, demonstrating Jobs' strategic foresight. This same approach later enabled Apple to develop its own silicon, starting small competency-building projects that eventually replaced Intel entirely.