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Why would they make their own M and A processors? They could continue to buy Intel chips and revert back to using PortalPlayer and Samsung chips. Chip designi
by somethoughts 6y ago
Why would they make their own M and A processors? They could continue to buy Intel chips and revert back to using PortalPlayer and Samsung chips. Chip designing is capital intensive and takes years to get up and running, when Intel and Samsung know how to do it.
- valuearb 6y agoDesigning chips isn’t capital intensive, making them is.
- kube-system 6y agoThey did buy PA Semi to get off the ground. TSMC is probably way too expensive though.
- threeseed 6y agoThey also bought Passif Semiconductor, parts of Dialog Semiconductor, Intel's modem team, Xnor etc.
- threeseed 6y agoApple designs their own CPUs, GPUs, SOCs, Modems etc. And they dominate the competition in performance/power.