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These chips mean Apple makes more money as well. Each chip now costs them pennies, as opposed to hundreds they were paying Intel and AMD. And their design costs
by addicted 6y ago
These chips mean Apple makes more money as well. Each chip now costs them pennies, as opposed to hundreds they were paying Intel and AMD. And their design costs are basically paid off by the iOS devices.
Pretty much everything they were paying Intel and AMD (for graphics) is now profit in their pockets.
- ehejsbbejsk 6y agoLikely 40% cost savings at best.
- Mauricebranagh 6y agoAll the Rnd Apple put into to make the new CPU's has to be amortised
- lizknope 6y agoExactly. A chip design team as large as Apple's costs hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries alone. Mask costs in 5nm are about $30 million. EDA physical design tools have list prices of over $1 million per license.
- colinmhayes 6y agoMarginal cost is not pennies. They still have to pay TSMC. With the premium to book their new nodes that's got to be a decent cost.