Owning their own fabs would save them whatever hefty premium they are paying TSMC, the exact same way that moving off of x86 saved them whatever premium they were paying to Intel.
> "Microsoft $3213 - Plausible."
They're not a hardware company at heart and would crater Intel just as surely as they cratered Nokia. Same goes for Google, Amazon, and Facebook.
Owning their own fabs would save them whatever hefty premium they are paying TSMC, the exact same way that moving off of x86 saved them whatever premium they were paying to Intel.
> "Microsoft $3213 - Plausible."
They're not a hardware company at heart and would crater Intel just as surely as they cratered Nokia. Same goes for Google, Amazon, and Facebook.