Steve Jobs, the former president and co-founder of Apple, stood at the origins of the creation of his own processors for smartphones and other gadgets, and it was because of its requirements that the Taiwanese company TSMC became the sole manufacturer of all chips. Cupertino company. As Engadget reports, economic historian Chris Miller writes about this in his book “The Chip War: Tackling the World’s Most Critical Technology.”

According to Miller, the writing on the back of every iPhone is misleading. “Developed by Apple in California. Collected in China. The most essential parts of the iPhone were indeed designed in California and assembled in China. However, they can only be made in Taiwan.”– noted the historian.

It is stated that Jobs did not develop his own chips from Apple in the first iPhone, but used the developments of many other companies, including Samsung and Intel. However, later the businessman considered it necessary to add “native iron” to smartphones.

For this, Apple acquired a small chip design firm called PA Semi. Apple’s first proprietary processor appeared on the iPad tablet and iPhone 4. Until 2010, when Apple released its first chip, there were only a few advanced manufacturers: TSMC in Taiwan, Samsung in South Korea, and American GlobalFoundries.

Jobs made a bet on TSMC, and the company gradually continued to avoid components from other companies, but still preferred the Taiwanese company in production. “iPhone processors are exclusively made in Taiwan. No company other than TSMC today has the skills or manufacturing capacity to meet all of Apple’s needs.”says the book.