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Unlikely that Apple even stocks "Texas Instruments ICs for board repairs" for their own use either. Custom ICs (and at Apple's volume why wouldn't they be cust
by marshray 4y ago
Unlikely that Apple even stocks "Texas Instruments ICs for board repairs" for their own use either.
Custom ICs (and at Apple's volume why wouldn't they be custom?) will be ordered and delivered straight to the manufacturing line. They'll know exactly how many to buy to minimize waste. A few leftovers may end up on AliExpress, but Apple is pretty tight so they probably go into the trash.
In no situation would we expect either Apple or TI to keep a stockpile of out-of-production custom voltage regulators around, unless a hardware engineer happened to have some in a desk drawer somewhere.
- josephcsible 4y ago> Apple is pretty tight so they probably go into the trash. Let's destroy our spare parts to make sure that Louis Rossmann can't get his hands on them and use them for board-level repair!
- marshray 4y agoI assure you no one at Apple is losing any sleep over Louis Rossmann. If they have freaky strict disposal controls over leftover components, it is because they are trying to prevent China's famous "midnight run" of the assembly line to produce counterfeit assemblies.