Re:Apple Should Extend an Arm to Intel
by dangus on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:02PM
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Apple has worked with mainland China and Taiwan governments without much difficulty, and they seem to have no problem operating there.
TSMC isn’t the only supplier capable of producing better chips than Intel, Samsung is also another available option if TSMC were to have issues.
To be quite honest, I’m not sure Intel has anything of value to offer Apple. If TSMC fails to deliver they’d sooner start their own fabrication business than go back to Intel.
Is it even unlikely that Apple one day moves the entire company’s main headquarters to China? If you think about it, it’s very likely that this will one day make a lot of business sense.
In a way this article is floating protectionism to patch the plot holes in the story of American Exceptionalism. Perhaps it can be argued that the US Government’s neoliberal approach did this to itself.
In the neoliberal world, anything but the highest level of efficiency is determined to be the loser. Perhaps that could be why the US continually fails to protect whatever special sauce it might have through outsourcing and subcontracting.
TSMC isn’t the only supplier capable of producing better chips than Intel, Samsung is also another available option if TSMC were to have issues.
To be quite honest, I’m not sure Intel has anything of value to offer Apple. If TSMC fails to deliver they’d sooner start their own fabrication business than go back to Intel.
Is it even unlikely that Apple one day moves the entire company’s main headquarters to China? If you think about it, it’s very likely that this will one day make a lot of business sense.
In a way this article is floating protectionism to patch the plot holes in the story of American Exceptionalism. Perhaps it can be argued that the US Government’s neoliberal approach did this to itself.
In the neoliberal world, anything but the highest level of efficiency is determined to be the loser. Perhaps that could be why the US continually fails to protect whatever special sauce it might have through outsourcing and subcontracting.