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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:12PM (#32511562)
What if we found out they were shredding all extra silicon so that competitors cannot get them?

Backing up though I think it's interesting that Apple has so much money that they can afford to buy up leading nodes for years. Why do they have that much money? I think it's obviously because of anti competitive behavior elsewhere such as their App Store which basically gives them a money printer.

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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by scarface74 on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:41PM (#32511940)
This is clearly false. They break down their revenue every quarter, hardware revenue dwarfs services revenue. Even within their services revenue there is Apple Music, subscriptions and the reported 14 billion a year that Google pays Apple to be the default search engine.
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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by katbyte on Thursday August 18, 2022 @12:32PM (#32511810)
Their hardware is the real money printer as apple only make ~20% of its revenue from “services” which includes things like Apple TV, music, and iCloud storage.
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