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Depends on your definition of "supply". The argument is mainly just semantics. They're not wrong per-se. A better phrase might have been "production" rather tha
by Aromasin 4y ago
Depends on your definition of "supply". The argument is mainly just semantics. They're not wrong per-se. A better phrase might have been "production" rather than supply. I agree, supply sounds like I'm buying an off the shelf component, not a custom designed wafer.
In short, Apple is set to purchase every wafer that TSMC produces when they launch their N3 node. How long for should have, but hasn't, been specified. It's safe to assume that by "entire supply" they mean "until TSMCs next node", at which point TSMC will take orders from other companies for their N3 node.
- sigmar 4y ago>It's safe to assume that by "entire supply" they mean "until TSMCs next node" Is that really safe to assume? Maybe the original paywalled story is more precise with language, but the use of "all available orders" and "100% of the initial N3 supply" seems so vague to me. Could initial mean first month of full scale production?
- ChoGGi 4y agoLooks like all production till somewhere around Q4 2024. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-15th-gen-arrow-lake-tsmc-delay https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-15th-gen-arrow-lake-...