> Apple was always going to own its own fabrication capabilities I'm not sure that was a foregone conclusion back in 2005-2007. If anything Apple was forced to

> Apple was always going to own its own fabrication capabilities I'm not sure that was a foregone conclusion back in 2005-2007. If anything Apple was forced to design their own chips because nobody else was able to offer what they wanted. M-series is a thing because Intel couldn't build the low-power/higher-performance CPUs that Apple wanted.