### Comment:
&gt;ould they want to take on (or more appropriately in) the pain in the ass of folding in a company competing in a commoditized product 
  
 huh source ? aapl has chip designers making top tier phone processors?

### REPLY:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-apple-makes-ai-chip-powering-iphones-fancy-tricks/ 
  
 https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/3/17191986/apple-intel-cpu-processor-design-competition 
  
 Old hat, my good man...

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