Following an injection of cash from the US government and a recent leadership overhaul, Intel has not been shy about asking others to invest in it. The latest company to get such a request — Apple — delivers a certain irony to the equation. Two decades ago, Apple surprised most the tech world by announcing it would adopt Intel processors across its Mac lineup — its only major product line at the time. At the time, Intel was running high, thanks to massive market share for Windows PCs, particularly in business. Apple at the time still seemed like a scrappy upstart and, after years of Intel processors touting higher clock speeds, the move seemed to show Apple finally understood how the PC market worked.