Apple Has 1,000 Engineers Working On Chips
 

Have you even stopped to think why Apple stays ahead of the curve in technology? It could be as simple as putting enough people on a project to insure that the best ideas and discoveries remain on the Apple campuses. Apple devotes 5% of its total workforce worldwide to develop smaller and more powerful chips. "Getting low power and smaller is the key to everything," the unidentified executive said, adding that "form factor no longer becomes an issue."

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