It could go a third way, where they use them internally, too, and they're cheaper to operate. So a certain percentage of the costs could be amortized through i

It could go a third way, where they use them internally, too, and they're cheaper to operate. So a certain percentage of the costs could be amortized through internal usage. Edit: > We know enough about Apple Silicon to know that high-performance ARM chips aren’t cheap to manufacture. Oh, and for this :-) We do know that Apple's per unit costs must be cheap, since the iPhone SE 2022 retails at $429 for an entire phone, and it comes with A15, which is quite competitive with Android flagship chipsets from 2023. Since they can squeeze in an entire phone + profits in $429, the chipset itself can't be that expensive. Yes, R&D is probably very expensive but they can spread that around to millions of units, just like Amazon :-) Of course, Apple could also be dumping chipsets, in which case, I don't know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯