Interesting view below. Assuming Apple wants to continue its approach on processors they should be keen on acquiring POET rights and implementing it say as A10. Meeting The Intel Challenge To be sure, Apple still needs to meet the challenge posed by Intel's (NASDAQ:INTC) Bay Trail processor giveaway, which has impacted iPad sales, as well as future mobile processors based on Intel's most advanced 14 nm process. Apple's answer to Intel will come in the form of a new generation of Apple-designed processors built using the new 14 nm process being put into production at Samsung's (OTC:SSNLF) Austin, Texas fab. Apple's next-generation "A9" processor is rumored to be already starting production at the Austin fab using the 14 nm process. The significance of this processor cannot be overstated. The A9 will be the world's first mobile device processor fabricated on a 14 nm process node. As such, it will actually beat Intel by a few months, since Intel is not scheduled to begin fabrication of the 14 nm successor to Bay Trail until late in 2015. More importantly, it will represent the first time any IC maker has been able to equal Intel's most advanced process. Assuming that the A9 comes to pass more or less as expected, it will represent perhaps the most significant event in the semiconductor industry in 2015. The A9 will significantly blunt, if not eliminate the threat of Intel in mobile devices. More importantly, it will open up a world of new capabilities for Apple in mobile devices and in personal computing in general. Eventually, Apple will be able to fabricate all its mobile processors using the 14 nm process. Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad will all become more capable as a result. This will not occur all at once, of course, but probably the next-generation iPad and iPhone will feature a 14 nm processor. More than anything else, the A9 will represent the triumph of Apple's integrated device business model, in which a single company designs the system-on-chips (SOCs) as well as most other elements of its mobile devices. And it will signify the beginning of the long twilight of the commodity processor makers such as Intel.