It's likely that Meltdown and Spectre will continue to haunt Intel and
other chip makers for some time to come.
Steve Jobs long believed Apple should own the technologies inside its products rather than rely on mashups of components
from other chip makers, including Samsung, Intel and Imagination Technologies.
I think people continue to be optimistic about the future, and I think for good reason,» Mr. Zemsky said in an interview, adding that he has had «active» conversations
with other chip makers about moving into the Utica plant.
TSMC lost the contract to fabricate Qualcomm's Snapdragon 835 chip on its foundry to Samsung, and while
many other chip makers had announced their 10nm based chips, Apple is the first company to release a product to consumers using a chip based on the company's 10nm fabrication process.
Xiaomi is pitting its first ever in - house chip against the lower mid-range selection
of other chip makers, like Qualcomm's Snapdragon 625 and both MediaTek's P20 as well as its P10.
In 2015, Apple still has no plans to play the speeds and feeds game to match Qualcomm, Samsung and
other chip makers» core counts.
Meanwhile, Qualcomm and
other chip makers have been chomping down the entire mobile processing pie.
The argument is that Qualcomm is trying to create a monopoly by not licensing some of its patented technology to
other chip makers.
With this, ARM hopes for
other chip makers to adopt embedded SIM (eSIM) and integrated SIM (iSIM) form factors, which the company says that are essential to offer secure identity to the next wave of cellular IoT devices.