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TSMC Confirms Deal with Apple to Produce A-Series Chips for Future iOS Devices
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if they can't get the bugs out of their process and manage to turn in their typically lower than average yields on new processes ..... no it won't.
It really particularly playing tough.... Apple defacto controlling one of their fabs is foolish. Other customers are gong to leave (not sign up for next generation) if set up impediments for delivering for them. Getting enough yield ( and possibly needing to run more wafers ) is always a possibility when dealing with TSMC and especially on a new process tech. Some competitor ( Apple who sells a competing SoC ) sitting there with their finger on the wafer allocation dial. LOL. Yeah sure going to sign up with TSMC. Might as well go with Samsung at that point. It is not a particularly different situation.
Come back to America. Intel ưill build them for you. They-Intel-ảe ươtking on 18nm process. Besides, Atom chips could be made to run ipads nicely.
nah, everboquet clearly wins:
http://www.everbouquet.com.tw
logo is that light blue ever-catcher thing.
possibly worst ever web site as well.
Apple has a storied history establishing new relationships with chip manufactures, using them, then squeezing them to reduce pricing. After a run of a few years Apple picks a fight bashes them in public so as to make the manufacturer the villain only to be replaced by their next target.
Going way back to the beginning all Macs were equipped with Motorola chips until Apple used them up and spit them out. All the while the Apple devotees used the derogatory term ~ Wintel~ to describe PCs comprised of Windows running on Intel chips.
Once Apple divorced Motorola, only a spin master like Steve Jobs could convince the Apple Faithful that suddenly the chip maker... Intel... they bashed was now going to be used in Macs.
One thing that Apple's great at is remaining a very polarizing company.
There's nothing quite as entertaining as reading the adventures and fables of Apple Inc.
Apple stopped using Motorola chips because the world kinda moved past the 68000, they stopped producing the things in 1996.
IBM was the next partner because of the Power architecture's vector processing advantage over Intel at the time, which helps enormously with graphics and video processing. That's why they bashed them, they picked a chip with a very specific advantage at one task, at that one time. Steve Jobs wasn't even at the company when this switch happened.
They switched to Intel because IBM's development got to the end of the road in terms of performance vs power usage. We wouldn't have a laptop with 12 hour battery life if Apple kept with IBM, there never was a PowerBook G5 because it would've overheated with a battery life of less than 2 hours.
It didn't take much convincing for Steve Jobs to convince the faithful that Intel was the way of the future when it was announced at WWDC 2005.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghdTqnYnFyg
Oh and by the way, Apple Mac sales were flat for the 5 years prior to the Intel transition. You all know the level of growth they're at now.
Hey now guys that logo was made in the 80s..which would have been wicked by the standards at the time.
Over time, this change should definitely benefit Apple at Samsung's expense.
Samsung was able to justify large investments in their chip fabrication business (allowing them to create their own fast chips) because of Apple's business. In some respects, Apple made Samsung what they are today by giving them the resources to be on the leading edge of chip fabrication.
Although Samsung now has a sizable fabrication operation, the loss of Apple's business will undoubtedly make it more difficult for Samsung to justify the large capital expenditures that helped to make their own processors so good. Furthermore, it will likely enable TSMC to increase capex spending to roll out new and improved processes in less time. So the net effect is that it will slow Samsung's deployment of new fabrication technology while speeding Apple's.
Samsung was able to justify large investments in their chip fabrication business (allowing them to create their own fast chips) because of Apple's business. In some respects, Apple made Samsung what they are today by giving them the resources to be on the leading edge of chip fabrication.
Although Samsung now has a sizable fabrication operation, the loss of Apple's business will undoubtedly make it more difficult for Samsung to justify the large capital expenditures that helped to make their own processors so good. Furthermore, it will likely enable TSMC to increase capex spending to roll out new and improved processes in less time. So the net effect is that it will slow Samsung's deployment of new fabrication technology while speeding Apple's.
PPC was a much better CPU architecture for much of the time Apple was using it... It's when it ran out of steam (for whatever reasons from Motorola and IBM) after the G5 was released that Intel started pulling ahead in every category (int performance, FP performance, power per watt, etc). Some described it as "putting billions of dollars into an old/inferior design yielding a better result than putting millions of dollars into a newer/superior one".
Fascinating how you make it personal, stoop to name calling which is revealing of who you are.
The company that I work for ships software for PPC. We bought 3 systems (Power 520 IRC) about 3 years ago. I never thought I would hate a computer as much as these boat anchors. Ridiculously expensive for what you get.
Unless you have a very specific reason to buy a PPC I would avoid it like the plague. Dumping PPC was an extremely wise choice. If Apple had stayed with PPC Apple would likely be under.
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Stop acting like a know-it-all child.
Yeah. But hes right, though.
Now that...? THAT is revealing of who someone is.
Says the guy who has been here for less time than me. Any fool can up his or her post count. Are you included?
I really don't see the relevance to how long you've been here vs your knowledge about Apple. There are tons of people who know plenty abt apple yet aren't on this site. Also, he could've visited this site everyday for 10 yrs, maybe he only made an account recently.
