Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by oblio on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:40AM
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An iPhone is made by many different suppliers. Apple only makes a handful of chips. Important chips, but hardly everything in the phone.
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Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by jsjohnst on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:58AM
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Apple doesn’t even “make” the chips, they design them. TSMC and GlobalFoundry have been the fabs historically that have done the actual “making” of them.
Re:Apple Lays Off 200 Employees from Autonomous Car Unit
by amelius on Thursday January 24, 2019 @06:08AM
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The point is that if Apple's obsession with supply chain integration continues, then at some point even the fabs might be assimilated. This can happen e.g. if their CPU design division needs tighter control over fabrication, or if they develop a key technology at the silicon level that they want to keep out of the hands of their competitors.