[dijit]

If AMD is a chip maker then so is Apple by the same metrics.

So, pick those metrics, they're certainly pushing large volumes, they're pushing some of the highest performance and some of the most efficient CPUs available.

So, they're #1 in power efficiency, #1 in fanless performance, #1 in Tablets, #1 in Fanless computers, #1 in Mini computers.

[hardware2win]

If you outsource chip creation, then you are chip designer, arent you?

>Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or fab) to a specialized manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry. These foundries are typically, but not exclusively, located in the United States, China, and Taiwan

What about other categories

Gaming, Data Center?

[qwytw]

So if we're talking about high-end chips Intel and Samsung are both designers and manufactuerers? And Samsung seems to have mostly abandoned Exynos and is using Qualcomms SoC now. So that only leaves Intel..

[hardware2win]

I'd say that chip makers = manufacture, so TSMC too

[sliken]

That's like calling Tesla a battery maker. You can't buy a bare battery from Tesla or a CPU from Apple.