Apple will probably start making their own chips for the iPhone and their new gadgets but I doubt they will do the same for the PC market. Agreed. I am an elec

Apple will probably start making their own chips for the iPhone and their new gadgets but I doubt they will do the same for the PC market. Agreed. I am an electrical engineer (circuit designer) and Intel is a monster when it comes to fabricating processors (their fabs are super optimized for processors alone, unlike generic fabs). I don't think Apple could do much better costwise by designing and manufacturing their own processers rather than buying Intel (even factoring in Intel's profits). This assumes that AMD continues to exist as competition. Everyone in the circuits industry is very interested in how Apple will use PA Semi's processors.