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Re:Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch by the-dude on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:10AM (#28849925)
If they really were the highest priority client, the fab would run exclusively for them, right?
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Re:Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch by avianlyric on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @05:27AM (#28850062)
They have done in the past. I’m pretty sure Apple helped fund TSMCs 5nm process in exchange for exclusive access to the process for a while.

But we don’t know which chips are in s as shortage, it could be memory chips, display controllers, battery management chips. Plenty of ICs in an iPhone to pick from, and you can’t build an iPhone without them all.

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