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Originally Posted by 5thWiggle
Actually, Apple designs its own processors. They are based on ARM chips (a company which started as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple, and VLSI), but Apple does a fair amount of refining. Samsung makes them for Apple.
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...Which they've only in recent years started doing, and *only* for the main CPU in iOS-devices. The avalanche of other chips in their products, are still off the shelf components.
Edit: Apple spend 2.500$ billion in 2011 on R&D, which is considered quite low in the industry, compared to their income.