You haven't read the article, or other articles and information about this then I take it?
Apple have licensed from ARM the ability to use their designs. (the company who are arguably the biggest, best and longest standing SOC company on the planet-they were making SoC systems for the newton pad and others from what I remember)
Apple have then customed that design with some of their own ingenuity-the RAM (secure storage module) for the TouchID, and the camera image processing (burst mode, on the fly panorama contrast/white balance adjust)
Yes, I think many need to read what you write.
It seems some appear to think Apple invented this chip from scratch.
Not Licensed and tweaked the long long running ARM companies products.
I am sure there are many who think Apple design the screens also and memory chips. sigh.