It seemed like a sure thing, too, until last month, when Apple bought chip designer P.
It should be noted that earlier this year an Apple machine with a chip running at 667 MHz was the second fastest in Apple's desktop G4 lineup.
With some observers worried that Apple could be supply constrained due to shortages of displays or perhaps other components, some investors today have apparently decided to unravel their Apple iPhone 5 chip supplier bets.
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Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.
Since it may take a while to get on board the likes of phone makers Motorola and Nokia, music players like Apple Computer or chip companies Texas Instruments and Freescale Semiconductor, HP is also looking to build the business internally.
That chip supply is improving gives Apple fans the chance to have the fastest chip without the extra options--apparently, there are more of the fast chips than there are Superdrives.
The new fourth generation iPad features the amazing 9.7-inch Retina display and includes a new Apple-designed A6X chip that delivers up to twice the CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of the A5X chip, all while delivering an incredible 10 hours of battery life in the same thin and light iPad design.
The chief executive of Arm Holdings, whose computer chip technology powers Apple and Samsung smartphones, is retiring after 12 years in the role.
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In the meantime, Apple continues to operate with a chip on its shoulder and seems poised to prove these doubters wrong.
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The all-new A6 chip was designed by Apple to maximize performance and power efficiency to support all the incredible new features in iPhone 5, including the stunning new 4-inch Retina display-all while delivering even better battery life.
Piper Jaffray analyst Auguste Richard this morning theorizes that the best option for Intel to make a dent in the mobile computing market would be for the company to start providing chip foundry services to Apple.
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Apple also put in a new processor chip, the A6, into the iPhone 5.
That turned out to be such a great chip that Steve Jobs and Apple had to buy it.
Details of a new chip coming from IBM have Apple's devotees buzzing about the future of their beloved Mac.
The interesting little speculation here is that it is already doing so at least for the chip in the newly upgraded Apple TV.
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They were neck and neck in 2011, spending 18.6 and 18.8 billion on semiconductors worldwide, but a new Gartner report out today finds that Samsung has pulled ahead of Apple as the world's biggest chip buyer by a decent margin.
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Apple engineers have grown confident that the chip designs used for its mobile devices will one day be powerful enough to run its desktops and laptops, said three people with knowledge of the work, who asked to remain anonymous because the plans are confidential.
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Samsung was 8% of the chip market last year, while Apple was 7.2% of the market.
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Jobs also told NYT that Apple's acquisition of PA Semi was, in fact, intended to reduce Apple's reliance on third-party chip makers.
While the Kepler-powered chip won't actually hit Apple systems till later this year, we got a first look at the K500 on a Mac here at IBC.
The iPad relies on an Apple designed system-on-a-chip, the A5.
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There have also been stories around that Apple is looking to either bring inhouse the chip fabrication itself, or to look for another fab house to bake them.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple's Macintosh computers.
The dual-core Power6 chip boasts a top speed of 4.7 gigahertz, double that of IBM's previous Power5 and represents a next generation processor to the PowerPC, the chip that was previously used in Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people )'s Macintosh computers.
With the popularity of the Apple (AAPL) iPad, there has been a rush by hardware manufacturers and chip makers alike to rush into the category, which had been pretty sleepy until Apple entered the market.
British chip designer Imagination Technologies, which counts Apple as a stakeholder, was flat at the close.
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Shortly after Apple began selling the iPhone in June 2007, chip supplier Qualcomm Corp.
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