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Well, Apple is essentially bankrolling development and production, so they get exlusive rights. Anyone is free to outbid Apple for this right, and also free to
by 0x457 4y ago
Well, Apple is essentially bankrolling development and production, so they get exlusive rights. Anyone is free to outbid Apple for this right, and also free to not impose that at all. Thanks to Apple's money, TSMC was able to secure a large chunk of ASML EUV equipment.
Also, Apple didn't make intel fumble their 10 nm process or Qualcomm to miss aarch64. Result of anticompetitive practices of intel and Qualcomm made them lazy and that resulted in this, not Apple buying TSMC capacity.
How is that not free market?