We can’t know for sure, but it’s highly likely they provided heavy capital investmeny to TSMC, and you can bet that came with strings attached. To add to the o

We can’t know for sure, but it’s highly likely they provided heavy capital investmeny to TSMC, and you can bet that came with strings attached. To add to the other examples given here, Apple actually owned the manufacturing equipment for the first generation retina panels, even though it was housed in factories owned and operated by Sharp.