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Re:A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013 by stephencanon on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @12:51PM (#7225920)
Intel obviously has vastly more negotiating power than any of Walmart’s suppliers. This may or may not be true of other fabs, but even in that space there are only a few suppliers and the costs of switching fabs are enormous; that isn’t true when Walmart is searching for a supplier of plastic adirondack chairs.
Re:A look at Apple's R&D expenditures from 1995-2013 by cromwellian on Wednesday February 12, 2014 @01:29PM (#7226211)
Apple doesn't buy mobile chips from Intel, they buy them from Samsung.