[PreciousLiberty]

"Apple has no idea what is in their products. Like most everyone else, Samsung and other manufacturers build the technology components of their phones."

Nope, Apple designs its own ARM CPUs and GPUs. It does have them fabbed in the Far East, similar to AMD's fabless business model.

Apple's A12 Bionic is the first 7-nanometer smartphone chip

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

“Apple designs its own ARM CPUs and GPUs.”

I imagine they can scan their code with tech similar to ‘word search’. But they can get really cozy with China sometimes. And who knows if key people were compromised?

But thank you for the information and input.

[TexasGunLover]

Nope, Apple designs its own ARM CPUs and GPUs. It does have them fabbed [sic] in the Far East, similar to AMD's fabless [sic] business model.

Nope, check again. They don't build them.