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Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by eitally on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @08:57AM (#41579159)
At the end of the day, everything but 1) product development (R&D) and 2) corporate leadership are fungible and prone to outsourcing to the lowest cost locations until they get moved to a place where quality drops off enough that the company backpedals a bit. All those corporate departments are largely filled with commodity staff, so this shouldn't be surprising.

I'm not saying that in a judgmental or harshly negative way -- I've personally worked in cost centers for most of my career, and although I think highly of myself and my peers, we're still just assessed bluntly as part of COGS.

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by p_l on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:26AM (#41580956)
Product Development, R&D, etc is absolutely fungible and outsourced, even by some ostensibly big names.

If C-level could be outsourced while keeping shareholder returns, it would be

Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by mrkstu on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:00PM (#41584055)
See IBM
Re:Apple Mobile Processors Are Now Made in America. By TSMC by p_l on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @03:09PM (#41584165)
The companies I had direct involvement with that outsourced R&D at least partially had names starting with J and N.

At least with J, if they outsourced the full part of one of the project, we would have it done faster and better XD