Apple Expected to Surpass Intel as Top Mobile Chipmaker

[Marcus52]

[citation][nom]dheadley[/nom]They design their ARM SoC just as much as any other company does. Samsung, TI, Qualcomm, Nvidia etc, do not do one single thing more than Apple does to produce their designs. They also don't just tell some other company give me a SoC with this GPU and this Core. They have two of the top ARM technology designers inhouse now. You do know that Intrinsic has one of the best power technologies on the market. Designed by them not ARM and now owned by Apple for use in their A series SoC's only. You do realize that that Intrinsic and PA Semi are two of the top SoC designer companies out there and are now part of Apple? You do realize that they bought a lot of the Freescale IP? You do realize they baked Audiances hardware sound technology into their A5 series SoC to give Siri help and it is the most advanced mobile audio hardware available? You do realize that they incorporated Imagination Technologies PVRTC2 tecture technology into the A5X and MP4 GPU and it is the fastest mobile GPU you can buy? The Apple hate on this site is so far out in left field at times.[/citation]

Are you seriously saying Texas Instruments doesn't fab any of its own processors?

 

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[citation][nom]Marcus52[/nom]While I think some of the talk I've read about Tomshardware going down hill has been uncalled for, "articles" like this greatly disappoint me.[/citation]
What's even more amazing is that, three weeks since the article was posted, the headline still hasn't been corrected.

Marcus52 - dheadley probably thinks that having limited manufacturing capability is like being in the same boat as the second (Samsung) and third (TI) largest manufacturers of semiconductors worldwide.