[weslleyskah]

But the actual manufacturing foundry is TSMC no? And they create the whole software environment based on their chips.

[mr_toad]

Apple doesn’t make hardware either, but they make a lot of money selling it.

[immibis]

It costs eight figures to create the masks (patterns) to use in the process of creating a modern chip. Just because it doesn't cost the eleven figures of the factory itself doesn't make it cheap.