Apple designs their own chips, but they don’t make them.
In any other context, that might be splitting hairs but it’s a meaningful distinction in this conversation.
In any other context, that might be splitting hairs but it’s a meaningful distinction in this conversation.
Intel didn't just miss out on business as a fab, Apple would have used their chip design as well.
Which leads you to wonder if Apple still would have begun designing chips themselves, if Intel had put some real effort into designing mobile chips.
I think it's safe to say that they had already selected an off the shelf Samsung CPU before they did the public demo of the device.
Even though I sent my prints out to be printed by shapeways or whatever, I still tell people "I made" those parts.