Steve Jobs: It's Time We Design Our Own IPhone And IPod Chips

[Guest]

The market potential for proprietary mobile processor designs from chip makers like Samsung Electronics and Intel Corp.

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[mr roboto]

Ouch. A great idea though if he can pull if off.

 

[SinisterCanuck]

Of course he can pull it off, he's Super Steve Jobs!

 

[Guest]

yeah, if he can. i'm sure big blue will have something to say about it. good luck to him.

 

[reasonablevoice]

I don't know if they are talking about just designing the chips or also owning the manufacturing plants but either way its not an easy thing to setup in-house. I don't know how much sense this makes for them.

 

[mr roboto]

No I don't think Apple meant to say they're gonna build their own Fabs. Do like most small chip makers do. Design your own chip and have a company in China build them for you. Stamp and Apple iChip logo on it and wala!

 

[Luftkopf]

Well a little while ago Apple was out purchasing chip development companies, so they've already got the design capacity.