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Re:Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5 by sbuk on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @02:49PM (#4512322)
Manufactured? Yes. Designed? No. Of course, their processors are ARM based, but that doesn't mean that they just stick a reference design in there and hope for the best. A lot of work goes into the design and Apple bought P.A. Semi and Intrinsity and acquired a 9.5% stake in Imagination Technologies, the folks behind PowerVR for that very purpose. Blithely declaring that Apple don't design their chips is somewhat wide of the mark.
Re:Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5 by rieter on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @03:28PM (#4512601)
I don't know how these acquisitions are relevant at all given that all dissections of A-series chips revealed reference ARM Cortex designs underneath. At best Apple design packaging of these chips, but that's 1% of work.
Re:Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5 by sbuk on Wednesday September 12, 2012 @04:36PM (#4513058)
Your just outright wrong. All of the companies that design SoC's put a heck of a lot of work into the design of the chip. Saying that it's mere packaging is simple mindedness at it's best.
Re:Apple Officially Reveals The iPhone 5 by rieter on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:02PM (#4519827)
lol