Report: Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs
arstechnica.com
TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple's business.

Apple buys every 3 nm chip that TSMC can make for next-gen iPhones and Macs::TSMC is said to eat the cost of defective chips so it can keep Apple’s business.

  • twelve12@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6213·
    11 months ago

    Ah yes, inovation. And by innovation, I mean buying the entire manufacuring capability so your competitors can’t use it

    • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      11 months ago

      I don’t mean to defend apple, but I wouldn’t criticize them for being ruthless when it comes to fighting for being the “best”

    • FoxBJK@midwest.socialEnglish
      94·
      11 months ago

      Look at me with a straight face and tell me that, if a customer comes into your store and says “I wanna buy everything you have and will make this year”, you’ll refuse because ‘it’s not fair to other people’.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        51·
        11 months ago

        I’m poor as shit and struggling to live.

        Anthropomorphised Mr.Apple could coast by my lifetime 20 quintillion times and probably not break a sweat.

        We are not the same.

    • hyper@lemmy.zipEnglish
      32·
      11 months ago

      This is the side effect of it. They order max capacity because apple knows its demand… they will sell all of it in record time 🥴