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Apple’s First Attempt at Building its Own Chips Was a Failure

Given the massive success of Apple Silicon and the fact that we’re just more than a month removed from the release of Apple’s most powerful chip yet, the M5 Max, it’s easy to forget that for the majority of the company’s history, Apple was beholden to others for its supply of systems on a chip (SOCs), CPUs and GPUs. But Apple has always understood that the best devices require full integration between hardware and software. That is why the company has fought so hard to fully own as much of its core supply chain as possible. Today, Apple not only...