&gt; Citation needed.<p>&gt; One non-verified source cannot be trusted, sorry.<p>I don&#x27;t work for Apple, and if I did I would value my job more over satisfying your need for a citation. But anyway, since I cannot prove or disprove that Apple did design their own chip, which they did, I will point out that NVidia, a much smaller company, has managed to do just what I claimed, see: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Denver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Project_Denver</a><p>&gt; Apple may be a big company, but they definitely lack the skill set to do such large chips themselves.<p>Really? I think their purchase of a processor design company in 2008 speaks to the fact that they do have this talent in house: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;P.A._Semi" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;P.A._Semi</a><p>PA Semi designed their own POWER CPU, which they developed from scratch. Don&#x27;t tell me these people (who work for Apple now) don&#x27;t have the capabilities and resources to design a processor which can implement the ARM ISA.<p>Either provide a citation that proves that Apple hasn&#x27;t designed their own core implementing the ARM ISA, or stop demanding some from my claim, which has a lot more evidence behind it.<p>The fact that they have dual sourced CPUs from TSMC and Samsung, which are on different processor nodes, thus requiring a different layout and mask, tells me that Apple&#x27;s hardware engineers absolutely know what they&#x27;re doing, and can design the internals of a chip:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;9686&#x2F;the-apple-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6s-plus-review&#x2F;2" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.anandtech.com&#x2F;show&#x2F;9686&#x2F;the-apple-iphone-6s-and-i...</a><p>Plus, around the time of the PA Semi acquisition, news outlets reported that the engineers were working on a custom CPU for Apple devices:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;apples_pa_semi_working_on_arm_chip_for_next_gen_iphone" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;appleinsider.com&#x2F;articles&#x2F;08&#x2F;09&#x2F;15&#x2F;apples_pa_semi_wor...</a><p>I honestly don&#x27;t know why I put so much time into refuting this. Many other people on the internet think that Apple is designing their own core inside the iPhone, how else would a dual core chip smoking the living shit out of Samsung and Qualcomm&#x27;s quad and octo core processors?<p>Here, have another person who says Apple design it themselves.
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