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Apple owns a fab. https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/12/14/apple-buys-former-maxim-chip-fab-in-north-san-jose-neighboring-samsung-semiconductor- https://appl

• beautifulfreak 8y ago
  For prototypes, low volume production. But they haven't bought a fab that can produce their A series chips, which I think shows restraint.
  • mmmBacon 8y ago
    Ok you said they didn’t buy a fab and you weren’t correct Building and operating a fab for 7nm is a massive undertaking. I find your comment incredibly naive. It cost 10s of billions of dollars to develop just the 7nm process alone. Global Foundries just cancelled all development of 7nm and beyond to focus on specialty processes and their 14nm process. Building an advanced node Fab would be an enormous undertaking and take many years before the first production wafer came out. Not to mention that there’s no guarantee that fab would be successful. On top of that fabs are all about volume, they are hugely expensive to operate. So it’s unlikely an Apple only fab would be economically competitive.