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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by mthoms on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:45PM (#41575234)
You’re missing the forest for the trees. The cause to celebrate is not that Apple chips are being made. It’s to celebrate that chips of such high calibre are being made.

It’s only a start, but it’s a huge deal in an economic, technological and geopolitical context.

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by shiroiushi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:01PM (#41575346)
Yeah, that's great, but it will be a lot better when they're making high-caliber chips for multiple customers, not just one.
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by jjtheblunt on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:15PM (#41575404)
It looks like you’re complaining Apple happens to have placed first orders for the new fab.

Maybe next week a run of Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite will begin production, for example. Is that second set of orders what you’re awaiting?

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by shiroiushi on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:39PM (#41575535)
Yes, basically. I don't like seeing what appears to be a whole ecosystem in the US centered on Apple. I really don't want to see a future where so much production is Apple-centered in America, that it's "un-American" to use non-Apple devices (because the Apple devices are mostly American-made, whereas the competitors are foreign-made). So seeing the US fabbing cutting-edge CPUs for a whole range of mobile devices from different vendors would be great.
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzA on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:57PM (#41575641)
Same for Samsung, then.
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by dgfitz on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @10:56PM (#41575302)
Yeah, it really is a big deal. I wish politics weren’t hitting this topic so hard. This is monumental.