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Maybe he meant "fully control the portion of the supply chain that matters".

Which I'm not sure is the case either...




Yeah, from the looks of it Apple is running some seriously beefy graphics hardware that somehow sips power. We know the CPU is in-house, but what about the GPU (which IMHO is the bigger part of the equation).


The A4 is an System-On-Chip, so no separate GPU.

From http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10442684-64.html :

  By definition, the A4 is a system-on-a-chip, or SOC, that
  integrates the main processor, graphics silicon, and other
  functions like the memory controller on one piece of silicon...




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