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This "and Apple pays top-dollar to TSMC to ensure they're the first on the new node" is Tim Cook's crowning achievement in the way Apple combines supply chain d
by Zigurd 6y ago
This "and Apple pays top-dollar to TSMC to ensure they're the first on the new node" is Tim Cook's crowning achievement in the way Apple combines supply chain dominance with technology strategy.
They do not win every bet they make (e.g. growing their own sapphire) but when they win it is stunning.
- kergonath 6y agoYes, and it’s been how they operate for quite a while now, ever like when they bought Toshiba’s production of 1.8’’ drives for the iPod (again, a part that defines the device), or how they paid to build NAND factories a couple of years later in exchange of a significant part of their production (including all of Samsung’s output in 2009).