[skohan]

Getting into semiconductors is probably substantially more complicated. Only a handful of companies are able to do it well and they have bene at it for decades.

[Covzire]

"at least it's not chip fabrication" is the new "hey at least it's not rocket science".

[spaceman_2020]

Apple does have more resources to throw at this problem than anyone.

Considering that their entire product line collapses without semiconductors, it wouldn’t be a poor investment.

[littlecranky67]

Such as creating a general purpose CPU that could compete with Intel/AMD performance-wise?