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Fully control the supply chain? Please don't editorialize like that.
by joshu 17y ago
Fully control the supply chain? Please don't editorialize like that.
- jmount 17y agoI know there are HN posting standards, but not all editorialization is bad. I find some opinions interesting and it gives you an angle to confirm or falsify when reading the article.
- FreeRadical 17y agoBut the opinion can be given in a comment.
- timdorr 17y agoDo they even own a plant or is production outsourced?
- bayleo 17y agoApple bought P.A. Semi, a small chip manufacturer, last year, so it is technically under the Apple umbrella.
- nexneo 17y ago"Fully control the supply chain?" that was the question in my mind so it appeared . But I agree with your concerns.
- hernan7 17y agoMaybe he meant "fully control the portion of the supply chain that matters". Which I'm not sure is the case either...
- potatolicious 17y agoYeah, from the looks of it Apple is running some seriously beefy graphics hardware that somehow sips power. We know the CPU is in-house, but what about the GPU (which IMHO is the bigger part of the equation).
- pieceofpeace 17y agoThe A4 is an System-On-Chip, so no separate GPU. From http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10442684-64.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10442684-64.html : By definition, the A4 is a system-on-a-chip, or SOC, that integrates the main processor, graphics silicon, and other functions like the memory controller on one piece of silicon...