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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by gjsman-1000 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @11:49PM (#25066562)
I think it was AnandTech, but an analysis suggested that Apple's BOM price for the M1 (which of course excludes R&D costs, software dev costs, profit, it's just the raw manufacturing cost) to be about $64.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by kube-system on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:06AM (#25066655)
Sure, and AMD's is probably similar.

The difference being that Apple only sells theirs inside of $1000+ computers, and AMD has to make up the entire margin on their CPU alone.

Behold, the power of vertical integration.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dr_zoidberg on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:00AM (#25066944)
The power of vertical integration means that Apple could sell their hardware at a loss, to get you inside the Walled Garden TM and then keep 30% of all you spend inside it.

I'm not saying they do that, considering how much their products cost, I'm saying they could. That's what vertical integration brings to their table, above all else.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by makeramen on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:14AM (#25066999)
Apple does the opposite by giving away their software and design “for free” and making up for it with hardware margins.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by pmontra on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:53AM (#25067192)
They give away their software but get a 30% on the software made by other companies and do their best not to let those companies get paid by other means than Apple's stores. I think this was the point of GP.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by Reason077 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:40AM (#25068765)
> "They give away their software but get a 30% on the software made by other companies"

Not on Mac they don't. macOS isn't tied to the App Store in the same way that iOS devices are, and it probably accounts for a tiny percentage of third-party Mac software sales by value.

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