The first Apple designed chip to see production was the A4 released all the way back in 2010. So it would have been in design stages some years before that. I f

The first Apple designed chip to see production was the A4 released all the way back in 2010. So it would have been in design stages some years before that. I find it hard to believe industry insiders didn't have some inkling what Apple was trying to pull some vertical integration move during all that. All the normies would have been given ideas by the A7, the first 64 bit design. I think that's when the iPhone benchmarks really started pulling well ahead. It's not like Apple didn't telegraph their move almost a decade in advance. I'm not sure what you're suggesting.