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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by addicted on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:51AM (#25332068)
These chips mean Apple makes more money as well. Each chip now costs them pennies, as opposed to hundreds they were paying Intel and AMD. And their design costs are basically paid off by the iOS devices.

Pretty much everything they were paying Intel and AMD (for graphics) is now profit in their pockets.

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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by colinmhayes on Monday December 07, 2020 @11:50AM (#25333887)
Marginal cost is not pennies. They still have to pay TSMC. With the premium to book their new nodes that's got to be a decent cost.
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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by ehejsbbejsk on Monday December 07, 2020 @09:39AM (#25332488)
Likely 40% cost savings at best.
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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by Mauricebranagh on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:26AM (#25332998)
All the Rnd Apple put into to make the new CPU's has to be amortised
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Re:Apple Preps Next Mac Chips with Aim to Outclass Highest-E... by lizknope on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:45AM (#25333237)
Exactly. A chip design team as large as Apple's costs hundreds of millions of dollars in salaries alone. Mask costs in 5nm are about $30 million. EDA physical design tools have list prices of over $1 million per license.
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