apple design their own chips. they don’t make them. they have to join the production queue at tsmc or foxconn like everybody else. and when demand goes up the queue gets longer.
This is correct. Samsung operate a chip foundry. Apple does not. Interestingly, Samsung’s Exynos chips are only used, for the most part, outside Korea and the United States. Those regions get the superior Qualcomm silicon. Exynos has never been as good.
apple design their own chips. they don’t make them. they have to join the production queue at tsmc or foxconn like everybody else. and when demand goes up the queue gets longer.
This is correct. Samsung operate a chip foundry. Apple does not. Interestingly, Samsung’s Exynos chips are only used, for the most part, outside Korea and the United States. Those regions get the superior Qualcomm silicon. Exynos has never been as good.
Apple chips are built by TSMC IIRC.