Apple is hiring employees from the semiconductor industry and building the capability to design its own chips, according to reports.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/252165/apple-to-design-its-own-chips.html

Which is a family of chips which was created by Acorn Computers when the successor to the BBC icro was being planned. Intel would not supply sample hardware for them to work with, so they designed their own chip, called it ARM (as in Acorn RISC Machine), and based the Acorn Archimedes around it. I have one of the first Archimedes, and I have an iPhone. Do I have both ends of the line? There’s a Newton somewhere in the middle of that too.

Yes: http://www.macuser.co.uk/news/252258