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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by 988747 on Friday August 19, 2022 @09:22AM (#32520640)
Why would you ignore the 2014 number? Isn't that exactly the cash infusion that Apple did to help TSMC become the leading semiconductor manufacturer? They make 20B in 2013, and then a year later suddenly make additional 60B on top of that? 60B can fund a lot of R&D.
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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by bildung on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:35PM (#32523161)
Actually that outlier simply was a wrong number it seems, as per [1].

But my reasoning was:

* Most importantly, TSMC's market share grew uniformly, and they already were quite dominant before (market shares: 2013: 49%, 2014: 54%, 2015: 55%, from [1])

* I don't know whether that additional revenue is from Apple. Apple's use of TSMC has to have started in 2013 if they shipped the products in 2014, and to my knowledge didn't end in 2014.

* If Apple could use a node size in 2014, actual development of that has to have started quite a few years before.

[1] https://investor.tsmc.com/english/annual-reports

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Re:TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month by 988747 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @06:05AM (#32538768)
> Actually that outlier simply was a wrong number it seems, as per [1].

Oh, I see. Makes much more sense than getting $60B out of the blue :)

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