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Apple could behave like Samsung. Buy the companies, merge them into a hardware fab unit, and then compete in the free market. Fab other companies chips, bid o
by basch 10y ago
Apple could behave like Samsung. Buy the companies, merge them into a hardware fab unit, and then compete in the free market. Fab other companies chips, bid on parts.
Apple is able to outbid Samsung for Samsung made chips.
- culturestate 10y agoI can't imagine Apple doing this, for all of the obvious reasons. I absolutely could imagine a more wide-ranging strategic partnership with e.g. TSMC, though – sort of like their enterprise sales tie-ups with IBM and Deloitte.