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Why would they? With the current arrangement they get all the benefits and none of the risk. If TSMC falters they can go to whoever supplants TSMC and make the
by etempleton 4y ago
Why would they? With the current arrangement they get all the benefits and none of the risk. If TSMC falters they can go to whoever supplants TSMC and make the same arrangement and continue to have the latest and greatest chips.
- bioemerl 4y ago> Why would they? They could annihilate all competition in the market except for them. Every single Android phone would be forced to use subpar manufacturing from there on out.
- colinmorelli 4y agoThe FTC would likely block the transaction precisely because of this. If they didn't block it, Apple would - upon doing the above - immediately subject themselves to anti-trust litigation from a lot of parties with a lot of money. Really hard to see this working out well for them.
- thefounder 4y agoEU and the US would not accept a merger in the first place.
- jnk345u8dfg9hjk 4y agowhy is the EU involved?
- csunbird 4y agoif Apple wants to sell their products in EU, they have to listen what EU says.
- warrenm 4y agoIt's a Taiwanese company Why do you think the US or EU would get involved?
- eppp 4y agoThey just choose to do it now?
- meepmorp 4y ago> Every single Android phone would be forced to use subpar manufacturing from there on out. Isn't that kind of how it is already?
- etempleton 4y agoSo Apple would spend probably over 100 billion dollars to buy TSMC and make them a less profitable company by not serving other companies? All this would do would weaken TSMC and strengthen other chip manufacturers for a couple years of absolute chip dominance. But they already have chip dominance, so it is for essentially zero gain.
- bioemerl 4y ago> make them a less profitable company by not serving other companies? They become part of apple. With a stranglehold on chips the price of apple products as a whole, or their sales, will skyrocket.
- etempleton 4y agoWould they? Apple already has the best chips. What makes you think that the average consumer cares that much about even a 20-30% performance difference. It is not like TSMC is the only competent chip manufacturer. Nvidia largely uses Samsung and they are doing just fine.
- bioemerl 4y agoApple already has the best chips, but in this case no one else would have them. Samsung is not doing fine, Nvidia switched off of them after a single generation because their process isn't very good.
- scarface74 4y agoThey honestly already have. They make 80% of the profit in the cell phone market. And even their low end SE is two years ahead of the competition in performance. Besides buying a major supplier out and then getting rid of their other customers is value destructive.