[somethoughts]

Why would they make their own M and A processors? They could continue to buy Intel chips and revert back to using PortalPlayer and Samsung chips. Chip designing is capital intensive and takes years to get up and running, when Intel and Samsung know how to do it.

[kube-system]

They did buy PA Semi to get off the ground. TSMC is probably way too expensive though.

[threeseed]

They also bought Passif Semiconductor, parts of Dialog Semiconductor, Intel's modem team, Xnor etc.

[valuearb]

Designing chips isn’t capital intensive, making them is.

[threeseed]

Apple designs their own CPUs, GPUs, SOCs, Modems etc.

And they dominate the competition in performance/power.