Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing

Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by ijustlovemath on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @08:25PM (#47146109)

My point is that we really don't know what "plausible" is anymore with these storms. That much is clear in the data. It seems silly to be so close to a flood zone with your very expensive DUV/EUV machines. There are probably other places they could have placed this facility.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by justsid on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:42PM (#47146628)

They are not fabbing the chips there, just assembling the machines.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by ijustlovemath on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @09:58PM (#47146727)

The price of the carried inventory is still significant; the scale they mention reaching towards is thousands per day. That's not including the backlog of components they would have onsite to ensure production uptime.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by justsid on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:17PM (#47146858)

Absolutely, but they are not losing a billion+ in EUV machines with year+ lead times in a flood. It'll hurt for sure though and doesn't appear to be the smartest overall move.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by _heimdall on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @07:32AM (#47150690)

I don't think we can both consider FEMA's 1% flood risks and also assume no longer know what plausible is with these storms.

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by ijustlovemath on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @10:14AM (#47152631)

I think it's safe to assume given recent storms that the 1% floodplains are _underestimating_ the risk

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Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing by _heimdall on Thursday February 26, 2026 @09:38PM (#47175685)

It sounds like you know what is plausible then though. Its plausible that 1% is and underestimate and implausible that its an overestimate.

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