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Is Apple going to be affected by the chip shortages we have been hearing about?
by enraged_camel 6y ago
Is Apple going to be affected by the chip shortages we have been hearing about?
- spamizbad 6y agoProbably not since they likely didn’t scale back their orders in 2020.
- kristofferR 6y agoI had to wait a month to get my Macbook Air M1 here in Norway. Was quite a painful wait (as my Macbook 12' got water damage, with the SMC limiting in to 1Ghz).
- ajmurmann 6y agoTaiwan also has a severe water shortage. I'd assume that's still a threat to production for Apple. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/04/22/2003756133 https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2021/04/22/20...
- totalZero 6y agoNikkei says they have already postponed some Mac and iPad production. Not sure how reliable that story is, but so far it doesn't look like customer orders are at all delayed. I bought a nonstandard one when this article came out, and they delivered it a week ahead of schedule. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/MacBook-and-iPad-production-delayed-as-supply-crunch-hits-Apple https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tech/Semiconductors/MacBook...
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- AmVess 6y agoApple tends to buy fab capacity in very large chunks. IIRC, they bought all of TSMC's 5nm capacity for a year.
- usefulcat 6y agoI would expect that Apple's chips are probably some of the more profitable chips made by TSMC. Apple has historically had relatively large margins, so they can probably afford to pay a bit more.