i remember reading that apple tended to financially help companies set up new fabs/equipment/whatever in exchange for fairly long term contracts. For example, w

i remember reading that apple tended to financially help companies set up new fabs/equipment/whatever in exchange for fairly long term contracts. For example, when they do a die-shrink, apple might pay 30% of the cost to upgrade the fab, in exchange for preferred (in terms of quality and price) chips for X years. No source, too lazy.