Comment by weslleyskah
20 hours ago
But the actual manufacturing foundry is TSMC no? And they create the whole software environment based on their chips.
20 hours ago
But the actual manufacturing foundry is TSMC no? And they create the whole software environment based on their chips.
Apple doesn’t make hardware either, but they make a lot of money selling it.
It costs eight figures to create the masks (patterns) to use in the process of creating a modern chip. Just because it doesn't cost the eleven figures of the factory itself doesn't make it cheap.