After a painful breakup and a bout of financial turmoil, Intel is looking to rekindle the relationship with its old flame Apple.

The x86 giant reportedly hopes to convince Cupertino to become an investor, unnamed sources told Bloomberg.

The talks come amid a flurry of new investment in Intel, which kicked off in August when Japanese investment bank SoftBank sank $2 billion into the ailing chipmaker.

Less than a week later, the Trump administration was shaking down Intel for roughly $11 billion worth of stock options, equivalent to 10 percent of the company, in exchange for $8.9 billion in CHIPS Act funding Washington had already awarded.

Then last week, Nvidia joined in on the fun, announcing plans to plow $5 billion into Intel shares. As part of the deal, the two companies formed a co

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