Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut'

Re:Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut' by wsc981 on Monday December 16, 2013 @06:38PM (#6918667)

> "Beyond that, Apple is beginning to invest into state-of-the-art foundries, possibly to create chips in house by the year 2016 or 2017. They've also bought out the high-end 20nm wafers through 2014, forcing their competitors to lag behind on the older 28nm process nodes. (Hell, even AMD / NVidia are feeling the sting. All AMD / NVidia roadmaps to better GPUs are at 28nm technology... Only Intel: who has reached 14nm on their in-house labs, remains unaffected by Apple's purchasing power)"

Very interesting. Would you have a source? I know Apple did the same "trick" with touch screens when the iPhone was introduced. I think these actions are typical of Cook - from what I understand he was earlier (before he became CEO) responsible for the whole inventory chain management and it's likely an area he's still involved in.

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Re:Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut' by dragontamer on Monday December 16, 2013 @06:53PM (#6918743)

On Apple buying a fab:

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/07/12/apple-has-their-own-fab/ http://www.tomshardware.com/news/TSMC-Samsung-Apple-UMC-A-Se... http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/07/12/rumor-apple-buys-i...

On Apple eating up wafer supply: its mostly speculation from even more illegitimate rumor sites. But those keeping up with the current roadmaps note that Apple and Samsung are reaching 20nm far before their competitors... and even AMD / NVidia have their 20nm plans pushed out to 2015 or later.

"Proof" is nonexistent, but the product roadmaps I've seen seem to match the rumors.

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