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
    6514·
    1 year ago

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

    • traveler01@lemdro.idEnglish
      187·
      1 year ago

      Or to avoid iPhone 14-like debacles. It was out of stock everywhere due to shortages.

    • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      1 year 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
      95·
      1 year 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’.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        91·
        1 year ago

        Do they offer a contract to make up for the loss of access to other customers?

        Because that’s a factor. If nobody else can buy your goods, they eventually consider your goods to be inaccessible at all, and you have no other customers.

        Me? I’m going to be honest in a retail environment and tell the person they can’t have everything because it essentially shuts down my business entirely until I can restock, which means I have to rely on that sale covering the expenses in between as well as lost custom as a fallout of essentially being closed until new goods arrive.

        It isn’t just unfair to other consumers, it’s problematic on a smaller scale.

        That’s different than the scale apple works on though. The suppliers don’t have to worry about that, so they can get away with saying fuck the other customers because the other customers are on a similar scale.

      • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
        61·
        1 year 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·
      1 year 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 🥴