@mxshift ("Rick Altherr") wrote:
That's not what happened at all. After Samsung proved themselves incapable of designing decent SoCs for iPhone, the Mac HW ASIC team was brought back together to design iPhone SoCs. That was in motion even before the iPhone announcement.
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@stevesi ("Steven Sinofsky – stevesi.eth") replied to a tweet by @stevesi:
23/ As Apple progressed with ARM it became clear that the breadth of the ecosystem was a benefit for ARM but was holding Apple back in terms of innovating. iPhone success gave Apple the resources to realize its chipset dream. Thus the System on Chip from Apple began.