Apple began making its own chips in 2010, starting with the A4 chip, which it used in the first-generation iPad and the iPhone 4. The company increasingly turned to its own semiconductors — a ...

A second report from Digitimes this evening suggest that Apple might outsource the production of the A4 chip and the rumored Cortex-A9-based A5 to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, TSMC.

Doug Brooks, Product Manager for Mac Hardware, is enthusiastic about Apple’s ability to maintain its performance and battery ...

A report from Reuters is claiming that Apple has begun trialling production of an A6 processor with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) ahead of an expected 2012 launch. If true it would ...

The M1 processor in the M1 MacBook Pro may have been the first Apple Silicon in a Mac, but Apple signalled the move much earlier with the original iPad way back in 2010. Its A4 chip was the first ...

Apple also licenses ARM's Cortex-A8 core design for the A4 chip, which runs inside the iPhone 4 and the iPad. Microsoft also licenses ARM's design, though its intentions in doing so are not quite ...