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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I wasn’t aware Apple has a wafer fab. Learn something new every day....


6 posted on 09/11/2013 12:40:23 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: Cyber Liberty
I wasn’t aware Apple has a wafer fab. Learn something new every day....

Apple owns a fabless design company. . . they designed it. But Apple is reported to have purchased United Microelectronics Corporation, a chip fabrication company this summer, capable of producing the A7 processor in house.

8 posted on 09/11/2013 12:55:41 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Cyber Liberty

The vast majority of companies designing and selling chips don’t own their own fab. TSMC in Taiwan, GloFo in the US, Singapore, and Germany, Samsung in the USA, and to a lesser extent IBM are where the chips are made, for a fee.


9 posted on 09/11/2013 12:58:06 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: Cyber Liberty

They don’t. Almost no one does any more. The capital investment necessary to set up a fab line is immense, and there’s enough fab capacity out there that there’s no point in trying to set one up.

Even a company as large as cisco doesn’t fab their own chips. They design, simulate, etc and then they send the design out to a fab house. In one case, we were looking at using IBM’s fab for a SOAC router chip.


19 posted on 09/11/2013 7:42:42 PM PDT by NVDave
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