> Apple wasn't big enough to design and fab their own chips, this was also true when they moved from PowerPC to Intel. Note there were rumours going around abo

> Apple wasn't big enough to design and fab their own chips, this was also true when they moved from PowerPC to Intel. Note there were rumours going around about whether or not Apple was going to buy PA Semi (or at least contact them) for their PWRficient CPU (implementing PPC). Ultimately they did buy PA Semi in 2008, though for the skills and they've since made all of the iPhone/iPad CPUs.