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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 04:49 AM EDT |
Don't you think that might be be more appropriate.
Sharp produce good products.
Ranting agencies sell opinions for high prices.
Sorry Freudian slip, meant to say Rating agencies...
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 02 2012 @ 11:26 AM EDT |
That is, the chip design is largely a bunch of organised logic gates. The
semiconductor process doesn't care if the CPU is ARM or an Intel i7 with
power gating, although it may care if a large DRAM or an analog radio or
video GPU gets integrated because of the specialised transistors and
buried capacitors used.
My second thought on this is that if Apple is suing Samsung, why wouldn't
they have a backup supplier or two in case Samsung returns the favor with
failure to supply critical, highly-leveraged components such as the CPU,
even in spite of the contracts involved? The litigation would drag on for
years, and Apple would have to design around it all before shipping
anything, potentially a consumer and financial disaster.
I certainly know of a former customer of my employer that has made a vow
never to buy anything from my employer due to a supply interruption that
wasn't even intentional.
it strains credulity to think this isn't part of Apple's calculus. But it's not
impossible, so I invite you to go find some relevant, pesky facts to
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